wisecrack

A wisecrack about the real estate prices popped into my head, but I held my tongue.

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

Pickard got the audience laughing with his wisecrack: "The song Greensleeves was composed by Henry VIII. I'd play some of it here, but it's not royalty-free."

From BBC ● Feb. 11, 2026

Burry is just as likely to be dismissed on social media, where jokers trot out a version of a wisecrack that he predicted 20 of the last two recessions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 28, 2025

More powerful than any wisecrack was the space she left for anticipation not only of what she might say but how she might say it.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 27, 2024

To the conductor, his wisecrack sounded like a snippy yap.

From "Dog Squad" by Chris Grabenstein

The other is “Fleabag”: Like Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s acidic reprobate, Ms. Weisz’s character is unconstrained by a fourth wall, sharing with us, reflecting, observing, making wisecracks but not being particularly funny.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 5, 2026

Big stars: Watts wrote and directed “Wolfs” with George Clooney and Brad Pitt cast as rival “fixers” swapping wisecracks while trying to clean up a bloody accident.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 23, 2024

Arthur Engoron, a 74-year-old judge with a penchant for wisecracks, sat just a few feet away from the prickly, smirking former president whose bluster and bravado helped propel him to the White House.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 6, 2023

It provided another opportunity for Chandler's wisecracks to be pushed aside for serious truths, which added poignancy to his lines.

From BBC ● Oct. 29, 2023

He began making wisecracks in a lockjaw accent about how I was going to become one of those fur-wearing, pinkie-extending, nose-in-the-air New Yorkers.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

After asking Warsh to stand, Trump wisecracked that he would sue him if he failed to lower rates.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 7, 2026

The bond also involved friendly rivalry and humor: “I never knew I’d be married to somebody that old,” he wisecracked when Rosalynn was 91.

From Seattle Times ● Nov. 17, 2023

“I would trade it in a minute, if I could just be a wife and mother,” wisecracked the gold lamé-wrapped, gum-chewing Tenuta, who accepted her award from Carlin.

From Washington Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

"Good. I didn't feel a thing," she wisecracked.

From Salon ● May 10, 2020

One of the boys behind him wisecracked, “You just wanted to win this thing so you could be taller than us for once, didn’t you?”

From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown

The bill opened with an onstage, truncated ballet class, with Erán Fink at the piano, conducted by Tomas Karlborg, the group’s wisecracking ballet master.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 20, 2026

Here again is that combination of lightly developed workplace issues, romantic complications and wisecracking banter one finds in most every broadcast procedural, a formula that can keep viewers watching for years.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 20, 2024

In “Crying Inside,” for example, he sings, “I’ve been wisecracking like the good old days / but pretty soon I’m going to slip away.”

From Salon ● Sep. 13, 2024

The puppeteer even hallucinates seeing Eric standing next to him, wisecracking and poking holes in his ego - because "puppets say the things we can't".

From BBC ● May 26, 2024

But Dan did make an effort to branch out, landing the role of a wisecracking detective in the school play.

From "Most Dangerous: Daniel Ellsberg and the Secret History of the Vietnam War" by Steve Sheinkin