wiseacre

Example Sentences

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Insouciance goes a fairly long way in “Confess, Fletch,” which revives the wiseacre investigator once played by Chevy Chase and featured in a series of novels by Gregory Mcdonald.

From New York Times • Sep. 15, 2022

You just know some wiseacre will be screaming “Get out of the hole!” the next time he putts.

From Seattle Times • May 6, 2022

Aaron Sorkin has his screwball David Mamet patter, Joss Whedon his wiseacre teams of lovable rapscallions, Diablo Cody her antic cleverness disguising roiling anguish, and so on.

From Slate • Jun. 29, 2018

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

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

From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli