"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
1. acerbic wit = opryskliwy dowcip acerbic wit
2. caustic wit = zjadliwe poczucie humoru caustic wit
3. self-deprecating wit = nazbyt skromne poczucie humoru self-deprecating wit
4. sparkling wit = skrzący się dowcip sparkling wit
5. scathing wit = uszkadzając poczucie humoru scathing wit
6. Irish wit = Irlandzkie poczucie humoru Irish wit
7. subversive wit = poczucie humoru wywrotowca subversive wit
8. bitter wit = zawzięty dowcip bitter wit
  • Schmidt's bitter wit, shot through with insecurity and self-conscious braininess, calls to mind Lorrie Moore, but her voice isn't derivative.
  • Father was something of a philosopher himself, with a bitter wit and a trick of spitting out staccato epigrams.
  • A dedicated satirist, he has made the buying and selling of packaged experience a favorite target of his bitter wit.
  • Ms. Baxter's Flynn, divorced for two years, manages to be quite attractive while scowling and dripping bitter wit.
  • Helciug's lyrics often feature a bitter wit that does not lend itself to easy translation, especially because of his tendency to paraphrase (both musically and lyrically) pieces of well known traditional songs.
  • How do you capture the music's restless spirit, its bitter wit, its elegiac grace, its raunchy energy?
  • And it is unrelenting, the invective interrupted only by the occasional flash of bitter wit.
  • Shostakovich was even suggested a bit in Mr. Corigliano's second movement, though without his inventive, bitter wit.
  • "You know, Ayesha," I continued, "you have said many hard things to me, making me the target of your bitter wit, therefore it is not strange that at last I answered you."
  • Then, his foolish daring and bitter wit had attracted Richard.
(8) verbal, slow, dim
Kolokacji: 3
(9) wicked, playful, mischievous
Kolokacji: 3
(10) lively, irreverent
Kolokacji: 2
(11) genuine, real, legendary
Kolokacji: 3
(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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