witticism meaning

• Noun: witticism  'witi`sizum
  1. A message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
     - wit, humor [US], humour [Brit, Cdn], wittiness, drollness

  Derived forms: witticisms

  Type of: content, message, subject matter, substance

  Encyclopedia: Witticism

Examples

1. we do appreciate our own witticisms.
2. he tries to lighten his lectures with an occasional witticism.
3. the interpreter at this dinner even managed to translate jokes and witticisms without losing the point.
4. they shared clemenceau's witticism that such was his affection for germany that he wanted two of them.
5. he began sneering and giving vent to disagreeable witticisms