wittily
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English wittily, wyttyly, wittiliche, equivalent to witty + -ly.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈwɪtɪli/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adverb
[edit]wittily (comparative more wittily, superlative most wittily)
- in a witty manner; using wit
- 1960 May 16, Walt Kelly, Pogo, comic strip, →ISBN, page 146:
- [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
- 2008, Diana West, Lisa Marasco, The Breastfeeding Mother’s Guide to Making More Milk[1], pages 107-108:
- When the mismatch is too great, baby can't get his mouth around the nipple and deep enough into the aureola to adequately draw milk. Deanne Francis, B.S.N., IBCLC, wittily refers to this condition as "oroboobular disproportion."
- 2008 June 8, Frank Rich, “One Historic Night, Two Americas”, in New York Times[2]:
- Yet even as the two establishment candidates huffed and puffed to assert their authority, they seemed terrified by Mr. Obama’s insurgency, as if it were the plague in Edgar Allan Poe’s “Masque of the Red Death.” Mrs. Clinton held her nonconcession speech in a Manhattan bunker, banishing cellphone reception and television monitors carrying the news of Mr. Obama’s clinching of the nomination. Mr. McCain, laboring under the misapprehension that he was wittily skewering his opponent, compulsively invoked the Obama-patented mantra of “change” 33 times in his speech.
- 1976, Choice - Volume 13, Issues 8-12, page 1300:
- He has wittily redone a tardy epithalamium and some nursery rhymes ("Three blind eunuchs"), and deftly catches the cozy lawnfuls of plastic dwarfs and flamingos, outside the kenneled people.
- 2020, Ben Burgis, Conrad Bongard Hamilton, Matthew McManus, Myth and Mayhem: A Leftist Critique of Jordan Peterson:
- A few years after the creation of YouTube in 2005, the site was full of 'Hitchslap' videos, showing the master either wittily insulting interlocutors or simply stating his abhorrence of their views with great vehemence.