wiseacre
Example Sentences
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Watching it now reveals an altogether different Fallon, more sarcastic wiseacre than chipper enthusiast.
From New York Times • Mar. 22, 2023
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
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