"high wit" is correct and usable in written English.
It is usually used to describe someone's clever or humorous comment or joke. For example, "John told a hilarious joke with a high wit that made everyone in the room laugh."
Ms. Robins dares to show the troubled human face behind the goddess, and there is high wit and, more surprisingly, pathos in her performance.
Directed with high wit and flair by George C. Wolfe, and starring the wonderful Jeffrey Wright and Don Cheadle, the play divides the world into a seesawing population of hustlers and victims.
There are many levels of deception practiced in "Topdog/Underdog," which also stars the estimable Don Cheadle and has been directed with high wit and flair by George C. Wolfe.
Vidal's crime novels don't merely share the high wit and style of his more "serious" fictions; they also drop some rare clues about the nascent thinking that went into the more oft-cited efforts.
And in a genre where humor rarely rises above the level of the digestive tract (in "Meatballs," Bill Murray plays a counselor who teaches one boy to belch "from the diaphragm"), ethnic humor passes for high wit.
Quinn's 18 homers and 56 R.B.I. lead American League rookies and he is hitting.359 since the All-Star Game break with six homers and 18 R.B.I. Mike Sweeney also homered for the Royals, who won despite tying a season high wit four errors.
"His materials — high intelligence, wit, philosophical depth, technical virtuosity — looked back to an older era of poetry's high ambition.
They mount an unlikely but enchanting alliance between macabre high camp wit and violently un-English abstract expressionism and have titles like Arse-Injected Death Syndrome. Arse-Injected Death Syndrome
The two men, played with high vaudevillian wit, are poked, imprisoned and generally bedeviled by a pack of veiled, sports-bra and spectacle-wearing females and one male equivalent.
Red hot gossip, high-class wit, self-important surroundings, very cheap meals and late night booze.
Patrick Moy effectively plays the emperor, Saturninus, as a youthfully snickering voluptuary, Geraldine Alexander makes a suitably "high- witted" Tamora, and Shaun Parkes invests the villainous Aaron with a wonderfully brazen confidence.
