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Another word for witticism

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Noun

  1. Words or actions intended to excite laughter or amusement

    See also:

    laughter

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Another word for witticism

Noun
  1. See also:

    pun

    joke

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • His real offence was a witticism at the expense of Sejanus, who put up two of his creatures to accuse him in the senate.

  • A sneer and a borrowed witticism, a detached, dispassionate veneer intended to convey intelligence.

  • Sorry about that, just a little witticism at the expense of our colonial cousins.

  • Topic: HAIRY needs a picture or signiture witticism!

  • Topic: HAIRY needs a picture or signiture witticism !

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