witticism
- n a message whose ingenuity or verbal skill or incongruity has the power to evoke laughter
- Art Buchwald's little witticism nicely captured his chosen path to a good death: mocking it to the very end.
- There the swells would sip martinis, intone the odd witticism or inanity and occasionally commit some headline indiscretion.
- So I will now exert all my analytic powers to convert his witticism to Holy Writicism.