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
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
She’s comic relief, not because you laugh at an overcooked caricature but because she delivers much-needed wiseacre observations.
From Washington Post • Jun. 21, 2017
He was acting so different, all glum, and wiseacre answers.
From "Maniac Magee" by Jerry Spinelli
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