twitted; twitting
Examples of twit in a Sentence
Noun
Only a complete twit would insult his hosts.
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Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Democrats think Republicans are knuckle-dragging idiots, and Republicans think Democrats are know-it-all twits.
—Cameron Smith | Csmith@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
Inadvertently, unconsciously, and probably unwillingly the FCA has produced a document that can be very useful to Republican politicians who are in a twit about ESG investing.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
Twitter has squeezed several executives and trust and safety advisors out, and the billionaire chief twit is about ready to give up his pole position, too.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
Now the new owner, who has now changed his bio from chief twit to Twitter complaint hotline operator, said hitting up verified accounts was a vital prerequisite to improving the platform’s experience for all 238 million daily active users.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
And making Gracie a useless twit who gets everyone else into trouble seems like a cop-out, unfair to the character and insulting to audiences.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
Unfortunately, even Lemann’s abbreviated portrait of Hoffman as visionary thinker and mover-and-shaker reveals him to be just another of Silicon Valley’s insular, arrogant, faux-populist twits.
—Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
Jones makes the Chief Factor a pompous twit without resorting to caricature, while Shepherd is similarly measured in conveying the Captain's sense of smart superiority.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
Variety, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
Noun
Jane Austen wrote takedowns of this kind of ninny two centuries ago — how fun to see Pike update her twit to the post-Y2K era.
—Amy Nicholson, Los Angeles Times, 7 Mar. 2024
Democrats think Republicans are knuckle-dragging idiots, and Republicans think Democrats are know-it-all twits.
—Cameron Smith | Csmith@al.com, al, 1 Aug. 2023
Inadvertently, unconsciously, and probably unwillingly the FCA has produced a document that can be very useful to Republican politicians who are in a twit about ESG investing.
—Robert G. Eccles, Forbes, 25 Jan. 2023
Twitter has squeezed several executives and trust and safety advisors out, and the billionaire chief twit is about ready to give up his pole position, too.
—Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 4 Jan. 2023
Now the new owner, who has now changed his bio from chief twit to Twitter complaint hotline operator, said hitting up verified accounts was a vital prerequisite to improving the platform’s experience for all 238 million daily active users.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 1 Nov. 2022
And making Gracie a useless twit who gets everyone else into trouble seems like a cop-out, unfair to the character and insulting to audiences.
—Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2021
Unfortunately, even Lemann’s abbreviated portrait of Hoffman as visionary thinker and mover-and-shaker reveals him to be just another of Silicon Valley’s insular, arrogant, faux-populist twits.
—Steven Pearlstein, Washington Post, 31 Oct. 2019
Jones makes the Chief Factor a pompous twit without resorting to caricature, while Shepherd is similarly measured in conveying the Captain's sense of smart superiority.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 31 Aug. 2019
Verb
Nosy birds twit and tweet from their leafy vantage points.
—Variety, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
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