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The Cartoon Caption Contest is also available to stream if you have the sadistic desire to watch groups of people struggling to come up with something half-witty while downing breakfast cocktails as time clicks away (I was there, and it wasn't pretty thought the mimosas helped).
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre, Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song Chris Kompanek 2010
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The Cartoon Caption Contest is also available to stream if you have the sadistic desire to watch groups of people struggling to come up with something half-witty while downing breakfast cocktails as time clicks away (I was there, and it wasn't pretty thought the mimosas helped).
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre , Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song Chris Kompanek 2010
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The Cartoon Caption Contest is also available to stream if you have the sadistic desire to watch groups of people struggling to come up with something half-witty while downing breakfast cocktails as time clicks away (I was there, and it wasn't pretty thought the mimosas helped).
Chris Kompanek: On the Culture Front: A Life in the Theatre, Revisiting the New Yorker Festival, and Redemption Song Chris Kompanek 2010
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When I'm in that position, I usually say something half-witty.
"American taxpayers are funding a lavishly appointed hospital in which hundreds of child molesters and rapists can idle their days away." Ann Althouse 2009
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Oh, I know it was a TV movie, but I want this as a fresh-out-of-the-box teenager movie, filled with blood and gore and half-awful, half-witty dialogue - like Predator, but with a sentient bulldozer as the enemy.
I Have Nothing Better To Write Today: Controversial Choices 2006
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Happy would some friend near him be to hear the half-tender, half-witty, yet most appreciative conceit which should first come stammering from his lips.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 17, March, 1859 Various
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But at this point he had broken off his discourse, and told an anecdote in his half-witty, half-wistful way about an article which he had written on Blake and which had somehow strayed into the hands of a man and his wife living in Normandy.
Evelyn Innes 1892
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Her long flaxen curls still hung down her face, but they were larger, and, as Fenwick thought, more tawdry than of yore; and her cheeks were thin, and her eyes were hollow; and then there had come across her mouth that look of boldness which the use of bad, sharp words, half-wicked and half-witty, will always give.
The Vicar of Bullhampton Anthony Trollope 1848
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I'm sure, rainman, that you have plenty of half-witty pro-linux statements, but I simply don't care about your lack of personal experience with linux problems.
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I'm sure, rainman, that you have plenty of half-witty pro-linux statements, but I simply don't care about your lack of personal experience with linux problems.
seanahan commented on the word half-witty
An expression which is partially witty, or the kind of thing a half-wit would find witty, or some hybrid of the two.
March 1, 2008