77 examples of twits in sentences

If on a country walk I have taken to my heels, you must not twit me with poltroonery.

Consider these words: wise, wiseacre, wisdom, wizard, witch, wit, unwitting, to wit, outwit, twit, witticism, witness, evidence, providence, invidious, advice, vision, visit, vista, visage, visualize, envisage, invisible, vis-à-vis, visor, revise, supervise, improvise, proviso, provision, view, review, survey, vie, envy, clairvoyance.

Ridicule, deride, mock, taunt, flout, twit, tease.

Lo, Frank, dost thou not see he's drunk, That twits thee with thy disposition? FRAN.

"Now Tomasso, though not willing to marry the girl himself, seems to have resented the idea of having anyone else do so, and accordingly seized every opportunity which presented itself to twit Angelo about the matter.

With what I have been, twit me not, my lord:

"She has so!" agreed Osh cheerfully, "but you ain't hardly the one to twit me of it; bein' as how you've never took a long breath yourself

The Duchess loved to joke at the expense of the Abbé, and twit him about his wasted talents, which were more adapted to love than to his present situation.

Why won't you be jolly, as Tom Piper's aunt is?" "I dare say I ain't pleasant," said Rachel, "as my own nephew twits me with it.

You have put me all in a twit-ter.

Give the wicked fairy Society a bad dinner, or leave her out of your invitation list for a ball, and she will twit you with the crimes or the misfortunes of a remote ancestorshe will go about talking of your grandfather the leper, or your great aunt who ran away with her footman.

Her Father and Brothers appeared exceedingly averse to this Match, and would not see me for some time; but at present are so well reconciled, that they Dine with me almost every Day, and have borrowed considerable Sums of me; which my Lady Mary very often twits me with, when she would shew me how kind her Relations are to me.

He twits his adversaries (that is, those who are not in the leading-strings of his school or party) with some personal or accidental defect.

Me every scurvy knave may twit, With stinging jest and taunting sneer!

She even dared to twit him about his feminine audience.

But Ulstermen and Nationalists still think it effective to twit one another with having been supplied with rifles from the arsenals of the Bosch.

It did not, however, occur to them to search the parish-register of Lynn, in order that they might be able to twit a lady with having concealed her age.

As the cowgirls throng to see him, he twits them on their conduct.

Her Father and Brothers appeared exceedingly averse to this Match, and would not see me for some time; but at present are so well reconciled, that they Dine with me almost every Day, and have borrowed considerable Sums of me; which my Lady Mary very often twits me with, when she would shew me how kind her Relations are to me.

The other youngsters laughed at his notions; one or two even went so far as to accuse him of being a snob and to twit him on having changed the spelling of his name and dropped the first "r" for the sake of a stylishness he pretended to despise.

She had the perversity to consider this a twit, and gave me a stinging reply, which I will not repeat to you, because you are a woman likewise, and would enjoy it too much.

But everything has its drawbacks, the water there hain't like Jonesville water; I don't say it to twit 'em, but it is a solemn truth, the water is riley, they can't dispute it.

" I wuz goin' to twit her and tell her that as first chaperone

Do you twit me with days when I had an Ideal, And saw the sear future through spectacles green? Then find me some charm, while I look round and see all These fat friends of forty, shall keep me nineteen; Should we go on pining for chaplets of laurel

He had really, through his midnight invocation of the fairies, obtained an opening into a new world, and he was ready to believe that with no one to twit him with being a changeling or worse, he could avoid perpetual disgrace and punishment and live at peace.

77 examples of  twits  in sentences