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wisecrack

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During an earlier safety lecture, one of the workers, Nick Fileccia, had made a few wisecracks.

From Time

Playing Morrie Schwartz, a 78-year-old Brandeis University sociology professor with an ALS diagnosis and months to live, Russotto is effortlessly effervescent as his character doles out slices of life-affirming wisdom and tension-cutting wisecracks.

He reportedly made a wisecrack while Duke was playing jazz on a piano.

She talks like her daughter now; everyone does, in that speedy, all-knowing, wisecrack-spattered sitcom patois of Modern Family.

“He responds to serious criticism by a biting wisecrack or diversionary personal attack,” Evans added.

He responds to serious criticism by a biting wisecrack or diversionary personal attack.

An anecdote about a wisecrack that Lebowitz made at an event in support of Russian Jews is worth the price of admission.

The Tea Partiers adore Sarah Palin because she reduces political questions to a kitchen-table wisecrack or a bedroom taunt.

Freddy Farmer's comment on Dave's wisecrack was a pronounced snort.

Dawson started to make another wisecrack, but the deadly serious look on young Farmer's face stopped him.

His sense of humor might have got the better of him and brought forth a wisecrack or two.

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On this page you'll find 68 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to wisecrack, such as: clowning, gag, one-liner, prank, quip, and witticism.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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