twitted; twitting
1
: to subject to light ridicule or reproach : rally
… he was twitted by the British press for his inability to correctly pronounce Slavic names …—
Jim Wooten
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: to make fun of as a fault
twitted her fussiness
Examples of twit in a Sentence
Noun
Only a complete twit would insult his hosts.
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Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Just have notifications turned on for [Elon's] twits and [make] some easy money.
—Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
Another screeching twit who’s been terrorizing kids at a church-run, after-school activity center threw a punch at me.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
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
Variety, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
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Noun
Bateman commits to his character’s wiry unruliness and makes Vince into a self-destructive twit, which is probably by intent.
—Daniel Fienberg, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
Nelis renders the professor a pompous and pedantic twit but not a heartless one.
—Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 Mar. 2025
Unforgiven recasts the genre as a pitiless, almost pathologically unromantic realm populated by twits hoping to make their name and aged gunslingers who have to make peace with their bad pasts.
—Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
Just have notifications turned on for [Elon's] twits and [make] some easy money.
—Ars Technica, 28 Feb. 2025
Another screeching twit who’s been terrorizing kids at a church-run, after-school activity center threw a punch at me.
—Matt Thompson, SPIN, 3 Feb. 2025
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
Verb
Nosy birds twit and tweet from their leafy vantage points.
—Variety, The Mercury News, 5 June 2019
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“Twit.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/twit. Accessed 13 Nov. 2025.
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