the wit

noun

: the ability to make good decisions

She had the wit to leave before the situation got any worse.

Examples of the wit in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

For all the wit in the clothes, there is a stillness and a surreal quality in Ball’s portraits that place her subjects slightly out of time. —Colleen Kelsey, CNN, 22 Mar. 2024

At La Scala, the wit and sensitivity of each composer — separated by a century — felt vital and alive in conversation. —Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Mar. 2024

But the wit and eagerness that make Meyers so attractive belie a character weakness that could lead to his downfall. —Sophie Van Bastelaer, EW.com, 14 July 2023

Here is a sampling from the wit and wisdom of The Washington Post’s commenting community: NeverMind2019andBeyond: Who is here for the comments? —Michael Blackmon, Washington Post, 9 Jan. 2024

The humble origin, the meteoric rise, the lavish excess and the contrition after the fall are recounted faithfully, with the result feeling — usually — like a Scorsese film without the wit or the sumptuous details. —Boris Kachka, Los Angeles Times, 11 Apr. 2023

Survival stories may indeed be disproportionately represented in the annals of Holocaust cinema, but the best ones have the wit to acknowledge just how improbable, even inexplicable, the act of survival could be. —Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 14 Dec. 2023

The movie had been shot and edited and was coming together in post-production–except that the final battle, between Tony Stark and his rival Obadiah Stane, was a boring slugfest between two men in metal suits, lacking the character and the wit that animated the rest of the movie. —Joanna Robinson, Fortune, 24 Nov. 2023

Its other engine is humor: The scenes that take place in 1809 are, for a long time, high comedy in the Oscar Wilde vein, and the play’s modern characters are no slouches in the wit department either. —Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023