Meanings of quick-wittedness in English

There is a moral quick-wittedness which sees the smile behind the threatening mask of Fate.

Despite his quick-wittedness in countering Terrace and the press, the LEMSIP director was in trouble.

Mr. Murch's private secretary held a position requiring quick-wittedness and suavity in no common degree.

By her own quick-wittedness and adroitness she had turned the tables on her would-be destroyer.

Others remembered his quick-wittedness in helping his friends.

While a certain amount of quick-wittedness might be appropriate, a weekly test of macho strength is not.

He had trusted to his own cunning and quick-wittedness; he had been shrewd, not over-scrupulous, and successful.

Tommy appreciated her quick-wittedness in realizing that he might be staying at the inn under an assumed name.

The same quick-wittedness and energy which had made him a good polo player made him a good reporter.

He discovered no contemptible sagacity and quick-wittedness in the science of horse-flesh, and was eminently expert in the arts of shooting, fishing, and hunting.

It is true that Tom had never confessed to the feeling that glowed in his breast, but Grace, with a woman's quick-wittedness, comprehended it.

"You are quite a match for your grandmother in quick-wittedness," he said.

"Nothing serious," said Julie, with that wonderful self-possession which a woman's quick-wittedness usually brings to her aid when it is most called for.