wisecrack

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

From Salon ● Jun. 18, 2026

He didn’t mince words or allow nuance or second thoughts to stand in the way of a zingy phrase or a colorful wisecrack.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 12, 2026

If it were singular, one could make a wisecrack and move on.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

She’s uber-competitive and thrives on getting into opponents’ heads, whether it’s from wearing them down physically, making a well-timed wisecrack or just being, as she calls it, “feisty.”

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 25, 2023

Ken and Bob had this smart, competitive way of joking where one would make a wisecrack and the other would have a comeback and the first would have a retort to the comeback.

From "The Glass Castle" by Jeannette Walls

But the superstar isn’t convinced until the very last moment, when she and Ava are about to take their final train ride and can’t resist trading a few wisecracks about death.

From Salon ● May 29, 2026

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

At the retirement home, everybody’s got problems — memory loss, cancer, loneliness — but these darker moments alternate with sight gags, punchlines and snarky wisecracks in a way that somehow feels cohesive.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 25, 2024

"Parker offers immaculate room service as she delivers polished rounds of rueful wisecracks."

From BBC ● Jan. 29, 2024

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

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

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 6, 2022

“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

Whenever the tone of the film tilts toward the overly reverent, Waters comes in with a bit of wisecracking, truthtelling remembrance: Oliver chain-smoked, swore, was stubborn, walked in the forest “like a crazy person.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 2, 2026

Perry famously portrayed the wisecracking Chandler Bing in the hit sitcom, which aired on NBC from 1994 to 2004.

From Los Angeles Times ● May 6, 2026

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