sharp-witted

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Love and larceny combine as Olivia Holt, “a sharp-witted retail worker,” and Connor Swindells, “a down-on-his-luck repairman,” independently plan to rob the same London department store on Christmas Eve.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 18, 2025

Gwen Crockett said her daughter was a sharp-witted speaker from a young age.

From Salon • Jan. 18, 2024

Stardom as the sharp-witted Chandler Bing on Friends also brought fortune - in the form of $1.1m an episode - and a string of glamorous girlfriends.

From BBC • Oct. 29, 2023

It’s a very good non-romantic pairing of sharp-witted old souls, a generation apart.

From Washington Times • Jun. 27, 2023

Their amazement at me, my language, my rules, and ways, once subsided, I found some of these heavy-looking, gaping rustics wake up into sharp-witted girls enough.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë