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    In a way that is clever and funny with words at the same time. Both halves matter. If you only make people laugh, that is funny; if you are only sharp, that is clever; wittily is when the cleverness IS the funny part. Someone answers a hard question in one neat line, and the room laughs because of how well the line was built — that is answering wittily. It describes how someone speaks or : to write wittily, to reply wittily, a wittily titled article, a wittily written review. Notice it goes with words, not with actions — you can dance well, but you cannot dance wittily. There is a cultural point worth saying. In British writing especially, being witty is high praise, higher than being funny; it says the person is quick-minded. So "wittily written" in a book review is a real compliment about the writer's brain, not just about laughs. The word is . You will meet it far more in reviews, articles, and novels than in talk, where people say "that was clever" or "good one".

    機智風趣地(用字聰明又逗趣,多形容說話或寫作)

    例句逐字對照、搭配詞、易混淆字

    這一義的完整解析還沒打開。訂閱後可以看到例句怎麼拆、常跟哪些字一起出現, 以及容易跟它搞混的字。

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組成witty + -ly. Witty comes from wit, which once meant "the mind" or "the ability to think", and now means the ability to say clever, funny things. The -ly ending makes it a word about HOW something is done.

同家族的字

  • wittythe adjective it is built from
  • witthe root noun — the quick mind behind it
  • witticisma single clever remark, built on the same witty
  • outwitsame root wit — to beat someone by being cleverer

原始詞典資料1 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法,原文照列,我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的;有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

wittilyadv/ˈwɪtɪli/

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    in a witty manner; using wit

    • [Bug:] You can parry and thrust wittily at a press conference?
    • When the mismatch is too great, baby can't get his mouth around the nipple and deep enough into the aureola to adequately draw milk. Deanne Francis, B.S.N., IBCLC, wittily refers to this condition as "oroboobular disproportion."

資料來源:英文維基詞典 English WiktionaryCC BY-SA 4.0)。 原文照列,未經改寫。