What is another word for witticisms?

Pronunciation: [wˈɪtɪsˌɪzəmz] (IPA)

Witticisms are witty and clever remarks that make people laugh or smile. Sometimes, we may find it difficult to come up with a perfect witticism, but with the help of synonyms, we can easily add variation and depth to our humor. Some alternatives to the word witticisms include quips, puns, jests, jokes, repartee, banter, and wisecracks. Each term has a slight difference in its meaning, allowing us to choose the perfect word to fit our message. With these synonyms, we can speak more fluently and effectively, impressing our audience with our quick wit and sense of humor.

What are the hypernyms for Witticisms?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Witticisms

My mates knew this, and accordingly often made me the butt of their cheap witticisms.
"Reminiscences of a South African Pioneer"
W. C. Scully
Willy had been too much abashed at his mistake to fully appreciate all of the witticisms over the prisoner, but Frank enjoyed them almost as much as Unc' Balla himself.
"Two Little Confederates"
Thomas Nelson Page
If you read Shakespeare's plays, and look up the meaning of old words, so as to understand old witticisms and allusions, you will discover that this was the stock jest of Shakespeare's time.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair

Famous quotes with Witticisms

  • Why are you not disgusted with yourselves when you use such shameful words? Do you imagine that you can woo a well-born woman with such witticisms and have her be well disposed towards you? Be refined and respectable men and then we can get along.
    Grand Duchess Maria Nikolaevna of Russia
  • He was a crank but not a bore, for his was a first-class mind and he had, above all, insight and depth, as no man in my generation had. No man in China wrote English the way he did, because of his challenging ideas and because of his masterly style, a style reminiscent of Matthew Arnold's poised and orderly evolution of ideas and repetition of certain phrases, plus the dramatic bombast of Thomas Carlyle and the witticisms of Heine.
    Gu Hongming
  • [Most people] are neither extraordinarily silly, nor extraordinarily wicked, nor extraordinarily wise; their eyes are neither deep and liquid with sentiment, nor sparkling with suppressed witticisms; they have probably had no hairbreadth escapes or thrilling adventures; their brains are certainly not pregnant with genius, and their passions have not manifested themselves at all after the fashion of a volcano. … Depend upon it, you would gain unspeakably if you would learn with me to see some of the poetry and the pathos, the tragedy and the comedy, lying in the experience of a human soul that looks out through dull grey eyes, and that speaks in a voice of quite ordinary tones.
    George Eliot
  • Voltaire's keen laughter must be heard before Samson could strike with the headsman's axe. Yet Voltaire's laugh proved nothing ; it produced only a brutal effect, just as did Samson's base axe. Voltaire could only wound the body of Christianity. All his sarcasms derived from ecclesiastical history ; all his witticisms on dogma and worship, on the Bible, that most sacred book of humanity, on the Virgin Mary, that fairest flower of poetry; the whole dictionary of philosophical arrows which he discharged against the clergy and the priesthood, could only wound the mortal body of Christianity, but were powerless against its interior essence, its deeper spirit, its immortal soul.
    Voltaire

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