wiseacre

Example Sentences

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Here is where a wiseacre would note that it makes sense for Winston to play for the Saints — who also play in the N.F.C.

From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2020

Some wiseacre in Millbury, Mass., celebrated the Patriots’ Super Bowl triumph over the Rams by replacing the sign for Goff Street with a Brady Street version.

From Seattle Times • Feb. 8, 2019

Salinger from young wiseacre to world-celebrated author and notorious recluse is absorbingly traced in Danny Strong’s “Rebel in the Rye.”

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2017

Both stars were good as glamour pusses in the pokey — Zellweger alternately doelike and catty in a wavy blond bob, Zeta-Jones a flinty wiseacre with hair like a steely black helmet.

From Washington Post • Mar. 30, 2017

He was acting so different, all glum, and wiseacre answers.

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli