witty dialogue
Sharp verbal sparring
Witty dialogue is conversation marked by quick, clever exchanges—the kind of sharp banter found in screwball comedies or Oscar Wilde plays.
The phrase usually describes fictional speech crafted for entertainment rather than spontaneous real-world conversation: The film's witty dialogue kept audiences laughing throughout.
- reparteeQuick, clever conversation
- verbal sparringCompetitive witty exchange
- wordplayVerbal wit techniques
- banterPlayful, teasing exchange
- clever banterWitty conversational exchange
conversation · battle of wits · double entendre · epigram · quip · Oscar Wilde · drawing room comedy · irony · bon mot · pun · sharp tongue · intelligence · sarcasm · snappy comeback · aphorism · riposte · war of words · satire
- cozy mysteryamateur sleuth, romantic subplot, village setting, nosy neighbor, female protagonist
- Elizabethan comedyTwelfth Night, The Comedy of Errors, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, The Merchant of Venice
- comedy tropespratfall, parody, sight gag, running gag, satire
- regency romancecourtship, marriage plot, proposal, suitor, suitors
- Screwball ComediesBringing Up Baby, It Happened One Night, The Philadelphia Story, Holiday, Twentieth Century
- Restoration Comedycomedy of manners, Drury Lane, rake, fops, libertines