quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense)

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Definition of quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense) in English English dictionary

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Quick-witted, alert, mentally sharp, smart (in a mental sense).

fly

be assured, O man of sin—pilferer of small wares and petty larcener—that there is an eye within keenly glancing from some loophole contrived between accordions and tin breastplates that watches your every movement, and is fly,— to use a term peculiarly comprehensible to dishonest minds—to the slightest gesture of illegal conveyancing. (Charles Dickens, Arcadia; Household Words ).

Hyphenation

quick-witted, alert, men-tal-ly sharp, smart (in a men-tal sense)