0 a remark that is both clever and humorous --
1 a remark that is witty (= both intelligent and amusing) --
The flashes of rhetoric and the barbed witticisms passed peacefully and completely over my offending head.
Serious reporting has given way to a preoccupation with knockabout comedy and juvenile witticisms.
If he would consent to abandon the taunts, jeers, and witticisms in which so far he has answered us, he would give us great satisfaction.
His speech was full of witticism, full of innuendo; the sort of speech that despairs really to meet the arguments put forward from these benches.
Like many witticisms of great men there is more than a germ of truth in that passage.
These banks are not organised to deal in witticisms.
It is indeed a serious subject, not to be treated with witticism or frivolity.
I thought that my little witticism would have passed unnoticed, even by his eagle eye.
