(n.) A smart, sarcastic turn or jest; a taunt; a severe retort; a gibe.
(v. t.) To taunt; to treat with quips.
(v. i.) To scoff; to use taunts.
Example Sentences:
(1) It would not be so much "house arrest as manor arrest", he quipped.
(2) Richards was a feminist who, rather than scaring men, stung them with her wit, a technique she famously applied to President George Bush senior in what became a legendary quip in American politics.
(3) More than anything, I started to feel that I was calling my friends less, seeing my friends less and that our friendships were being reduced to a trickle of pictures, comments and quips.
(4) Keates quipped that the only positive thing she could think to say about the education secretary was that he was the union's "new poster boy", citing the surge in recruitment since he took over the department.
(5) "Greeks need to unburden their fears," says the comic, the scent of cologne permeating his dressing room after he has danced, sung and quipped his way through another rendition of "Sorry … I'm Greek".
(6) How to stop Donald Trump: women may hold the solution Read more If she believes that Trump’s criticism of women is not “gender-specific”, as she said in a CNN interview , can she tell us whether her father would ever quip that a male doctor graduated from “Baywatch Medical School ”?
(7) We have a few quotations from a compendium of jokes of the first emperor Augustus (not all brilliant: "When a man was nervously giving him a petition and kept putting his hand out, then drawing it back, the emperor quipped, 'Hey, do you think you're giving a penny to an elephant?'").
(8) That prompted a drummer in his studio band to storm off the stage in mock outrage while bandleader Kevin Eubanks quipped: "Jay, you're messing around on me?"
(9) 'A modern revolutionary group headed for the television, not for the factory,' quipped the late Abbie Hoffman, one of the great political pranksters of 1968who helped provoke a bloody battle between anti-war protesters and the Chicago police force at the Chicago Democratic convention.
(10) "That's Putin for you – just divorced and already looking for new adventures," one Israeli diplomat quipped.
(11) There are two things you need to know about David Nicholson, runs the health service quip about the NHS chief executive.
(12) We still want your money.” 'The question was stupid': Hungarians on the refugee referendum Read more The quip is a reminder that while this weekend’s referendum in Hungary was born from similar frustrations to the Brexit vote in June, the Hungarian right does not want to leave the EU.
(13) The two men, from different political camps, have a polite relationship that has sometimes been barbed and punctuated by stinging Conservative quips about French leftwing tax-and-spend policies .
(14) Bill Shorten quip on lettuce leaves the vegetable starring in national debate Read more State government support would be needed to implement that package, but some have already ruled out supporting an increase.
(15) quips Andy Daly, a statement that needs no punchline, but he delivers one anyway.
(16) Just from looking at Boris Johnson you can tell that British hairdressing is not doing so well,” quipped one.
(17) "Young people were born free; soon they may be everywhere in chains," Hands quipped in an oblique reference to academy chains.
(18) Pressed on the issue at prime minister's questions, Cameron quipped that Labour had promised to fund the allowance "from savings we've made from our success in reducing debt".
(19) He also quipped that one of his female MPs had "sex appeal" and wasn't "just a pretty face".
(20) But the validity of the individual measures and the relationship between achievement of QUIP standards and resident quality was not firmly established.
Smart
Definition:
(v. i.) To feel a lively, pungent local pain; -- said of some part of the body as the seat of irritation; as, my finger smarts; these wounds smart.
(v. i.) To feel a pungent pain of mind; to feel sharp pain or grief; to suffer; to feel the sting of evil.
(v. t.) To cause a smart in.
(v. i.) Quick, pungent, lively pain; a pricking local pain, as the pain from puncture by nettles.
(v. i.) Severe, pungent pain of mind; pungent grief; as, the smart of affliction.
(v. i.) A fellow who affects smartness, briskness, and vivacity; a dandy.
(v. i.) Smart money (see below).
(v. i.) Causing a smart; pungent; pricking; as, a smart stroke or taste.
(v. i.) Keen; severe; poignant; as, smart pain.
(v. i.) Vigorous; sharp; severe.
(v. i.) Accomplishing, or able to accomplish, results quickly; active; sharp; clever.
(v. i.) Efficient; vigorous; brilliant.
(v. i.) Marked by acuteness or shrewdness; quick in suggestion or reply; vivacious; witty; as, a smart reply; a smart saying.
(v. i.) Pretentious; showy; spruce; as, a smart gown.
(v. i.) Brisk; fresh; as, a smart breeze.
Example Sentences:
(1) Pint from £2.90 The Duke Of York With its smart greige interior, flagstone floor and extensive food menu (not tried), this newcomer feels like a gastropub.
(2) Never become so enamored of your own smarts that you stop signing up for life’s hard classes.
(3) "He's defined by being himself, by being smart, by being a good athlete," Goldwater said of Keller.
(4) Advancing the health and rights of women is the right – and smart – thing to do for any nation hoping to remain or emerge as a leader on the global stage.
(5) By way of encouragement we've got 10 copies of Faber's smart new anniversary edition to give away.
(6) It’s likely Xi’s brand of smart authoritarianism will keep not just his party in power but the whole show on the road If all this were to succeed as intended, western liberal democratic capitalism would have a formidable ideological competitor with worldwide appeal, especially in the developing world.
(7) These letters are also written during a period when Joyce was still smarting from the publishing difficulties of his earlier works Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man.” Gordon Bowker, Joyce’s biographer, agreed: “Joyce’s problem with the UK printers related to the fact that here in those days printers were as much at risk of prosecution on charges of publishing obscenities as were publishers, and would simply refuse to print them.
(8) I could just banish the app from my phone forever, but deleting a piece of smart tech that makes my life easier doesn’t feel very satisfying.
(9) I buy ‘smart price’, own-brand cornflakes, rather than Kellogg’s, and I still get to the checkout and think, ‘That’s come to a lot again.’” Are you Daniel Blake?
(10) If you're sincere and smart and genuine and lovable that's what's going to come across in your videos and tweets."
(11) In a statement, Fisher Price said: “We recently learned of a security vulnerability with our Fisher-Price WiFi-connected Smart Toy Bear.
(12) Can consoles still survive in a rapidly changing business where smartphones, tablets and smart TVs, and now Steam Machines, are threatening?
(13) Snapchat is also thinking about new devices, launching a Snapchat Micro app for Samsung's Galaxy Gear smart watch in September, capable of shooting pics and videos with the device's camera, then sharing them.
(14) There were signs of encouragement early in the second half from Sunderland, and they should have pulled one back only for a terrible call from the assistant referee Eddie Smart.
(15) In Drosophila melanogaster new tester strains for the somatic mutation and recombination test (SMART) in the wing were constructed with the aim of increasing the metabolic capacity to activate promutagens.
(16) And there are plenty who think that, as our libel laws are cleaned up, smart lawyers are switching horses to privacy.
(17) I think the heart of good comedy really lives in truth and reacting to the absurdities, hypocrisies, abuses of power in the world.” Late night television is a no longer a glass of warm milk before bed, it’s a lunch buffet And as TV viewership declines and internet virality becomes as important as real-time eyeballs, cable networks might find that topical comedy is a smart, cost-effective way to grab cross-platform attention.
(18) With cities moving markets, joint procurement standards generate great potential for economies of scale, from buses to smart street lighting.
(19) A smart city would use IT to manage traffic so air stays fit to breathe.
(20) Pitched as a "smart" calendar, it's easy to create appointments and events, and ties in neatly with the developer's separate Any.do to-do lists app.