wittily

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
13
Words With Friends
13
Letters
7
Pronunciation
/ˈwɪtɪli/

Definition of wittily

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adv

  1. in a witty manner; using wit
    “[Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?”
    “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."”
    “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.”
    “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.”

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Etymology

From Middle English wittily, wyttyly, wittiliche, equivalent to witty + -ly.

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