Definition of witticism in English:

witticism

noun ˈwɪtɪsɪz(ə)mˈwɪdəˌsɪzəm

A witty remark.
Maurice roared with laughter at his own witticisms
Example sentencesExamples
- The acerbic Australian, equally at home dissecting serious cultural issues and Japanese endurance game shows, will be reading from his new collection of essays and dispensing bons mots, acid witticisms and Antipodean insights.
- However, this film encourages the viewer to come up with his own witticisms and biting remarks.
- After everyone had a chance to read the piece, the room began to jump with jokes and witticisms about the plan.
- His narration is particularly entertaining, with funny witticisms from time to time.
- He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine.
- Maybe younger viewers will find these witticisms funny.
- He can chuckle over some of the hard times of his young adulthood though you can sense the hurt that lingers behind the easy jokes and witticisms.
- Some witticisms were outright jokes at the passerby's expense.
- Imagine the one-line witticisms flying back and forth between Hepburn, Morrissey and Wilde.
- But his real and enduring value is as a superb writer: a crafter of succulent sentences, savory asides, tart witticisms (and other easy food metaphors he would never have condescended to use).
- I'm always thinking of wisecracks and witticisms, always searching for the funny side of a situation.
- ‘It was all witticisms and banter,’ said Mark Fine.
- Since then, he's provided wicked witticisms and killer punchlines for them all - Tommy Cooper, Stanley Baxter, Billy Connolly, Les Dawson… in fact, anyone who was anyone in British comedy.
- ‘It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked,’ is one of her most repeated witticisms.
- Still, in its four seasons, it's done well with critics and, usually, in the ratings, with an effectively complicated mix of gloomy outlook, one-line witticisms, apocalyptic plots, and range of characters.
- By the way, if, in sixty years of speechifying, journalism, writing two books and conducting voluminous correspondence, George Lansbury ever made a joke or a witticism, it has escaped Dr Shepherd.
- Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps.
- First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms.
- This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.
- We don't know whether it's Fran Drescher's sense of style or her witticisms on The Nanny, that capture 10-year-old Ashlay Skerrit's attention, but it's her favorite TV show.
Synonyms
joke, quip, witty remark, flash of wit, jest, pun, play on words, double entendre, sally, riposte, pleasantry
epigram
(witticisms), repartee, banter, badinage
French bon mot
informal one-liner, gag, funny, crack, wisecrack, comeback
rare paronomasia, equivoque, Atticism

Origin

1677: coined by Dryden from witty, on the pattern of criticism.

Definition of witticism in US English:

witticism

nounˈwɪdəˌsɪzəmˈwidəˌsizəm

A witty remark.
Maurice roared with laughter at his own witticisms
Example sentencesExamples
- After everyone had a chance to read the piece, the room began to jump with jokes and witticisms about the plan.
- Still, in its four seasons, it's done well with critics and, usually, in the ratings, with an effectively complicated mix of gloomy outlook, one-line witticisms, apocalyptic plots, and range of characters.
- Imagine the one-line witticisms flying back and forth between Hepburn, Morrissey and Wilde.
- ‘It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked,’ is one of her most repeated witticisms.
- ‘It was all witticisms and banter,’ said Mark Fine.
- Since then, he's provided wicked witticisms and killer punchlines for them all - Tommy Cooper, Stanley Baxter, Billy Connolly, Les Dawson… in fact, anyone who was anyone in British comedy.
- He can chuckle over some of the hard times of his young adulthood though you can sense the hurt that lingers behind the easy jokes and witticisms.
- Maybe younger viewers will find these witticisms funny.
- We don't know whether it's Fran Drescher's sense of style or her witticisms on The Nanny, that capture 10-year-old Ashlay Skerrit's attention, but it's her favorite TV show.
- His narration is particularly entertaining, with funny witticisms from time to time.
- This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live.
- But his real and enduring value is as a superb writer: a crafter of succulent sentences, savory asides, tart witticisms (and other easy food metaphors he would never have condescended to use).
- The acerbic Australian, equally at home dissecting serious cultural issues and Japanese endurance game shows, will be reading from his new collection of essays and dispensing bons mots, acid witticisms and Antipodean insights.
- By the way, if, in sixty years of speechifying, journalism, writing two books and conducting voluminous correspondence, George Lansbury ever made a joke or a witticism, it has escaped Dr Shepherd.
- First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms.
- He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine.
- Some witticisms were outright jokes at the passerby's expense.
- However, this film encourages the viewer to come up with his own witticisms and biting remarks.
- I'm always thinking of wisecracks and witticisms, always searching for the funny side of a situation.
- Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps.
Synonyms
joke, quip, witty remark, flash of wit, jest, pun, play on words, double entendre, sally, riposte, pleasantry

Origin

1677: coined by Dryden from witty, on the pattern of criticism.

单词	witticism
释义	Definition of witticism in English: witticism noun ˈwɪtɪsɪz(ə)mˈwɪdəˌsɪzəm A witty remark. Maurice roared with laughter at his own witticisms Example sentencesExamples The acerbic Australian, equally at home dissecting serious cultural issues and Japanese endurance game shows, will be reading from his new collection of essays and dispensing bons mots, acid witticisms and Antipodean insights. However, this film encourages the viewer to come up with his own witticisms and biting remarks. After everyone had a chance to read the piece, the room began to jump with jokes and witticisms about the plan. His narration is particularly entertaining, with funny witticisms from time to time. He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine. Maybe younger viewers will find these witticisms funny. He can chuckle over some of the hard times of his young adulthood though you can sense the hurt that lingers behind the easy jokes and witticisms. Some witticisms were outright jokes at the passerby's expense. Imagine the one-line witticisms flying back and forth between Hepburn, Morrissey and Wilde. But his real and enduring value is as a superb writer: a crafter of succulent sentences, savory asides, tart witticisms (and other easy food metaphors he would never have condescended to use). I'm always thinking of wisecracks and witticisms, always searching for the funny side of a situation. ‘It was all witticisms and banter,’ said Mark Fine. Since then, he's provided wicked witticisms and killer punchlines for them all - Tommy Cooper, Stanley Baxter, Billy Connolly, Les Dawson… in fact, anyone who was anyone in British comedy. ‘It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked,’ is one of her most repeated witticisms. Still, in its four seasons, it's done well with critics and, usually, in the ratings, with an effectively complicated mix of gloomy outlook, one-line witticisms, apocalyptic plots, and range of characters. By the way, if, in sixty years of speechifying, journalism, writing two books and conducting voluminous correspondence, George Lansbury ever made a joke or a witticism, it has escaped Dr Shepherd. Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps. First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms. This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live. We don't know whether it's Fran Drescher's sense of style or her witticisms on The Nanny, that capture 10-year-old Ashlay Skerrit's attention, but it's her favorite TV show. Synonyms joke, quip, witty remark, flash of wit, jest, pun, play on words, double entendre, sally, riposte, pleasantry epigram (witticisms), repartee, banter, badinage French bon mot informal one-liner, gag, funny, crack, wisecrack, comeback rare paronomasia, equivoque, Atticism Origin 1677: coined by Dryden from witty, on the pattern of criticism. Definition of witticism in US English: witticism nounˈwɪdəˌsɪzəmˈwidəˌsizəm A witty remark. Maurice roared with laughter at his own witticisms Example sentencesExamples After everyone had a chance to read the piece, the room began to jump with jokes and witticisms about the plan. Still, in its four seasons, it's done well with critics and, usually, in the ratings, with an effectively complicated mix of gloomy outlook, one-line witticisms, apocalyptic plots, and range of characters. Imagine the one-line witticisms flying back and forth between Hepburn, Morrissey and Wilde. ‘It's better to be looked over than to be overlooked,’ is one of her most repeated witticisms. ‘It was all witticisms and banter,’ said Mark Fine. Since then, he's provided wicked witticisms and killer punchlines for them all - Tommy Cooper, Stanley Baxter, Billy Connolly, Les Dawson… in fact, anyone who was anyone in British comedy. He can chuckle over some of the hard times of his young adulthood though you can sense the hurt that lingers behind the easy jokes and witticisms. Maybe younger viewers will find these witticisms funny. We don't know whether it's Fran Drescher's sense of style or her witticisms on The Nanny, that capture 10-year-old Ashlay Skerrit's attention, but it's her favorite TV show. His narration is particularly entertaining, with funny witticisms from time to time. This book is full of aphorisms, bon mots and witticisms, nearly all to do with the absurdity of the world in which we live. But his real and enduring value is as a superb writer: a crafter of succulent sentences, savory asides, tart witticisms (and other easy food metaphors he would never have condescended to use). The acerbic Australian, equally at home dissecting serious cultural issues and Japanese endurance game shows, will be reading from his new collection of essays and dispensing bons mots, acid witticisms and Antipodean insights. By the way, if, in sixty years of speechifying, journalism, writing two books and conducting voluminous correspondence, George Lansbury ever made a joke or a witticism, it has escaped Dr Shepherd. First thing Monday morning, I would be in at school or work, entertaining people with crass jokes and tasteless witticisms. He would start with off-the-cuff remarks and witticisms and gradually improvise a setting in which they could shine. Some witticisms were outright jokes at the passerby's expense. However, this film encourages the viewer to come up with his own witticisms and biting remarks. I'm always thinking of wisecracks and witticisms, always searching for the funny side of a situation. Like them, he writes a kind of protest poetry: wisecracks and witticisms made in the tumbril cart on the way to the guillotine of literary judgment, perhaps. Synonyms joke, quip, witty remark, flash of wit, jest, pun, play on words, double entendre, sally, riposte, pleasantry Origin 1677: coined by Dryden from witty, on the pattern of criticism.
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