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Synonyms for twit

fool

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Synonyms for twit

to make fun or make fun of

an instance of mockery or derision

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Synonyms for twit

someone who is regarded as contemptible

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aggravation by deriding or mocking or criticizing

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In order to explore the connection between reading and writing, Brittany and I began reading The Twits (Dahl, 1982) with a focus on language choices, characterisation and plot, along with reading for the precise message of the text.
Culinary eccentrics Sam Bompas and Harry Parr, whose Dinner At The Twits event the beer accompanies, will also be treating guests to a live wormery to mirror the "spaghetti" supper favoured by Mr Twit, along with a bird pie with feet and claws sticking out of the crust and fruit vodka with a scented helium balloon chaser.
As a Realtor, Twit experienced the booming market of the early 2000s, the subsequent Great Recession, and the current recovery.
The problem is that this upper-class twit is given a platform from which to spout such crass opinions.
In the Top Agent article, Twit discusses growing up with a strong work ethic in her home town of Stevens Point, Wisconsin, and experiencing both the booming market of the early 2000s and the subsequent Great Recession.
WITH so many misguided tweeters now making so many headlines, it's probably safe to assume Twit Of The Year (Channel 4, Monday) will become an annual event.
Years one and two focused on the book The Twits. As a class they made roly poly birds, Mr Twit beards and a fantastic adjective word bank.
Chief Insp Sally Seeley said: "We're really pleased to have been nominated for the Golden Twit awards.
NEIL WARNOCK says Twitter should be renamed Twit - but he will not stop Joey Barton using it before his first game for QPR against his old team Newcastle.
THEATRE: An outdoor production of Roald Dahl's The Twits braves the elements today, the tale of Mr and Mrs Twit, two of literature's most repulsive characters, who spend their life playing tricks on each other and being generally nasty to everyone they come into contact with.
"We've got to find an A-List celebrity who is willing to make a twit of themselves," he says, trying to call Leonardo di Caprio
``I used to laugh out loud at the description of the cornflakes in Mr Twit's beardLiverpool's former Coventry goalkeeper Chris Kirkland named Jeremy Strong's children's book There's a Viking in My Bed, while Manchester United star Ryan Giggs chose A Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela.