wiseacre

Example Sentences

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That’s the thing about elections: they help keep wiseacres like me honest.

From Los Angeles Times

“Hey,” said one wiseacre, stepping into a gaggle of car people on the patio at the Mission Ranch.

From Los Angeles Times

Watching it now reveals an altogether different Fallon, more sarcastic wiseacre than chipper enthusiast.

From New York Times

While “my statue was the butt of wiseacres and witlings, I never in word, or thought, swerved from my principle,” he wrote.

From Washington Post

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