Colleague thinks not, that it was a witty way to distance himself from the (toxic) Brown brand.

If a chord was not correct, he'd find a witty way of telling us.

The subject of race is presented in several witty, often purposefully irritating ways.

But he does have a witty, wacky way with line.

"The Graduate" was a witty and palatable way to bring a whiff of 60's liberation into mainstream movie making.

The witty way in which an old story is given a new twist plays to a contemporary sense of irony.

The list of aims is extended to include communicating ideas with the public often in a then humorous or witty way.

I try to think of a joke, or a witty way to say it.

He reached a point of violent catharsis, but then backed down into a witty way out of the piece.