wiseacre
Example Sentences
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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
Eddie Korbich is a jaunty partner for McKechnie as Hines, who’s getting coached by Mabel to trust his gal, Gladys, and he has a classic wiseacre style that introduces the whole show perfectly.
From Washington Post • Nov. 9, 2017
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
That hit television series, on which he played the wiseacre Chandler Bing for 10 seasons, sticks to him like a sweaty shirt.
From New York Times • Jun. 5, 2017
He was acting so different, all glum, and wiseacre answers.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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