as in wiseass
a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way
a loudmouthed wiseacre who thinks he is more amusing than he really is
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Similarly, the Pink Ladies, a popular clique headed by Rizzo (Stockard Channing), deliver their wiseacre lines with a fair dose of irony.
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Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
Mark Kelly The boat, the train and the paradigm shift were all missed by Apple, according to the wiseacres.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 June 2023
At the height of his career, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, film director Mike Nichols was widely regarded as something akin to the nation’s satirist in chief — our principal wit, wag, and wiseacre.
—Peter Tonguette, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
The rest is an affirming mixture of pathos and zingers, memories and regrets, all told in the wiseacre voice of Duffy Sinclair.
—Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
The wiseacres at Ivy and Coney are once again turning their neighborhood tavern into a month-long celebration of Hanukkah.
—Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
Bugs Bunny likes carrots and is a wiseacre, but Mickey is a cypher.
—Oliver Staley, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2020
The young cast of the first IT was, unsurprisingly, in large part made up of unknowns, with Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, who played the wiseacre Richie, the best known of the bunch.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 July 2019
Once, as a wiseacre adolescent, he was almost cast opposite Burt Reynolds in an early '90s buddy-cop comedy, and really wishes that had panned out.
—August Brown, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
Vogue, 10 Sep. 2024
Mark Kelly The boat, the train and the paradigm shift were all missed by Apple, according to the wiseacres.
—Holman W. Jenkins, WSJ, 6 June 2023
At the height of his career, in the late 1960s and early 1970s, film director Mike Nichols was widely regarded as something akin to the nation’s satirist in chief — our principal wit, wag, and wiseacre.
—Peter Tonguette, National Review, 4 Mar. 2021
The rest is an affirming mixture of pathos and zingers, memories and regrets, all told in the wiseacre voice of Duffy Sinclair.
—Joyce Sáenz Harris, Dallas News, 6 Apr. 2020
The wiseacres at Ivy and Coney are once again turning their neighborhood tavern into a month-long celebration of Hanukkah.
—Washington Post, 2 Dec. 2019
Bugs Bunny likes carrots and is a wiseacre, but Mickey is a cypher.
—Oliver Staley, Quartz, 5 Mar. 2020
The young cast of the first IT was, unsurprisingly, in large part made up of unknowns, with Stranger Things star Finn Wolfhard, who played the wiseacre Richie, the best known of the bunch.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 10 July 2019
Once, as a wiseacre adolescent, he was almost cast opposite Burt Reynolds in an early '90s buddy-cop comedy, and really wishes that had panned out.
—August Brown, latimes.com, 11 July 2018
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