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Meanings of witty man in English

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Usage of witty man in English
1
It don't sound beyond the power of a witty man like me.
The Torch and Other Tales
2
He was not a witty man or a maker of epigrams.
Daniel Webster
3
How much easier it was to think he was just a clever, witty man.
Discord's apple
4
I was willing to grant you that Monsieur de Bismarck was perhaps a witty man.
Four Short Stories By Emile Zola
5
You ought to be a witty man, though one would scarcely charge you with that.
Winston of the Prairie
6
Oh, Shaw, my dear, is a dear, witty man-andhe's so funny and so fair.
His Second Wife
7
Per their spokesman: He is a nice and polite man who is also a witty man.
The Irish Times
8
In fact, to gull a fool seems to me an exploit worthy of a witty man.
The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Volume 0...
9
Norris, who is a witty man, and not young, stultifies himself by keeping such company: and why?
Wolf hall
10
Is not mine host a witty man?
The Compleat Angler
11
He is a very witty man.
Peter Ibbetson
12
Kid was a witty man, usually overflowing with innocent mirth; even in sight of the gallows his humor was insuppressible.
Sketches of the Covenanters
13
A witty man he is in every respect, but of no good nature, nor a man ordinarily to be dealt with.
Diary of Samuel Pepys — Volume 34: March/April 1664-65
14
But tell me, now, thou witty man, what hast thou gotten there in that pouch by thy side and in that pottle?
The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood
15
And the little witty man again interposed: If you go with us, publican, you'll have two cheeks, a right and a left.
I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
16
Calm eventually settles over Brennan, a warm and witty man at his kitchen table, but it is hard to revisit such pain.
The Guardian
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