wiseacre
IPA: wˈaɪzeɪkɝ
noun
- One who feigns knowledge or cleverness; one who is wisecracking; an insolent upstart.
- (obsolete) A learned or wise man.
verb
- To act like a wiseacre; to wisecrack.
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Examples of "wiseacre" in Sentences
- Note the word "absolute" that the wiseacre slipped in there.
- He also made regular wiseacre appearances on a little VH1 show called Best Week Ever spoiler: the best week ever was June 18 to 24, 1995.
- In the golden age of the family sitcom, children with the exception of wiseacre Rusty from Make Room for Daddy didn't zing their parents like Borsht-belt comics.
- Swept into the orient as we learned, no one was too alarmed when some wiseacre in the back of the room had the good sense and quick whit to break out some hand cymbals.
- The book follows the usual jocular style of the "For Dummies" series (does the publisher have a special "wiseacre" editor?) including the cartoons and the usual "Part of Tens".
- Hunky wiseacre Ryan Reynolds has announced that his next project is entitled ‘Buried’, a film about a civilian contractor in Iraq who gets captured and buried alive with only a cell phone, candle, knife … … and his wits yo!
- There was a gang of wiseacre boys who defiled the sacrament of confirmation—the Catholic equivalent of the bar and bat mitzvah—by choosing the silliest saint they could find, "Aloysius," for the confirmation name that the bishop would announce when it was their turn to get their cheeks slapped.
- Labour's electoral system may not be a good one, but the big guns – from private financial donors, to wiseacre columnists, newspaper editorialisers and party grandees – almost all lined up for David, against Ed. The pro-Ed camp in the press has pretty much consisted of the People newspaper and three or four of us columnists.
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