"wit" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés

wit sustantivo

sustantivo + wit
Kolokacji: 6
rapier wit • acid wit • De Wit • Antoni Wit • trademark wit • ...
wit + verbo
Kolokacji: 4
wit makes • wit comes • wit helps • wit begins
verbo + wit
Kolokacji: 17
keep one's wits • use one's wits • lose one's wits • match wits • know for one's wit • ...
adjetivo + wit
Kolokacji: 57
quick wit • dry wit • sharp wit • sly wit • great wit • ...
collocations grouped by meanings
Grup znaczeniowych: 15
(1) quick, ready, clever, nimble
Kolokacji: 4
(2) dry, wry, ironic, droll
Kolokacji: 4
(8) verbal, slow, dim
Kolokacji: 3
(9) wicked, playful, mischievous
Kolokacji: 3
(10) lively, irreverent
Kolokacji: 2
(11) genuine, real, legendary
Kolokacji: 3
1. genuine wit = autentyczne poczucie humoru genuine wit
2. real wit = prawdziwe poczucie humoru real wit
3. legendary wit = legendarne poczucie humoru legendary wit
  • A legendary wit and conversationalist Healy also made a number of celebrated BBC broadcasts during the war years.
  • A legendary wit, a fearsome critic, an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter-there's a lot to love about Dorothy Parker.
  • The pavilion will certainly give visitors a crash course in Johnson's legendary wit, for what he has designed is an orientation center whose chief function is disorientation - a bending, rippling, twisting structure with an interior that puts computerized morphs to shame.
  • If, as critics suggest, Perelman's legendary wit is dated but classically so, not to worry - we can find comfort in the classic au courant essays of "If You Can't Say Something Nice."
  • Capturing the warmhearted and generous spirit of the legendary wit, he examined Wilde's ascent to literary prominence and his public downfall.
  • After he shot that scene, he says, he called the director Alan Rudolph, who had written a script with Randy Sue Coburn about Dorothy Parker and the other legendary wits of the Algonquin Round Table.
  • Subjected to an investigation by the Trustees, Bartlett employed what had become a legendary wit and finely honed intelligence to explain his actions and defend his administration.
  • One thing that remains unchanged about Mr. Edwards is his legendary tart wit, and sometimes imperious regard of himself.
  • It was a relationship I treasured, and I had come to know some of the nuances lurking within Billy's legendary wit.
  • He was one of the most popular musicians to come out of the West Coast's "cool jazz" scene, and the possessor of a legendary and idiosyncratic wit.
(12) natural, musical, lacerating
Kolokacji: 3
(13) razor-sharp, pointed
Kolokacji: 2
(14) savage, cynical, malicious
Kolokacji: 3
(15) delicate, brittle
Kolokacji: 2
preposición + wit
Kolokacji: 12
to wit • of wit • with wit • for one's wit • out of one's wits • ...

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