Sentence examples for terribly witty from inspiring English sources

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He was terribly witty about failure.

"Charles is terribly witty and deeply funny," she said.

Oh, how terribly witty, for this is junk food, isn't it?

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Besides, Mr Burston said: "This assumption that gay men have the monopoly on being stylish and witty is terribly unfair to straight men.

In many ways Avram is Israel -- brilliant, witty, intelligent, inventive -- and yet terribly psychically wounded by a war that never ends.

For a start, witty as it is, this poetry is all terribly blokeish - and indeed it is all written by men, apart from a few dreary verses by Sulpicia, whom even Higgins fails to make very interesting.

Lily James plays Juliet Ashton, the bestselling British author of witty but shallow wartime vignettes, who is engaged to a terribly handsome American.

But "Terribly Happy," adapted from a novel by Erling Jepsen, is not a horror movie but a witty, expertly constructed psychological thriller.

It has everything one could ask, and more: it's stylish, witty and compelling; has an infuriating yet likable lead detective; and is also terribly good at skewering contemporary class anxieties and manners.

We realize this introduction is short (and not terribly funny), but to be perfectly honest, it's almost lunchtime, and it's hard to be witty and have good ideas when you're hungry.

Very witty.

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