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Meanings of wiseacre in English
An upstart who makes conceited, sardonic, insolent comments.
Usage of wiseacre in English
1
Did you never hear of a pawnshop, you dear little wiseacre?
2
And if this wiseacre tries anything, I'll rip his beard off.
3
It is a great mistake-oneof the greatest ever wiseacre made!
4
Who had in a trice converted him into a wiseacre?
5
None but his wife knew whether he was a wise man, or a wiseacre.
6
A notary, the wiseacre of the party, remarked that he was running to certain death.
7
That I am no wiseacre is pretty well known.
8
The professional wiseacre, however, made shift to recover himself.
9
Now, what is the reason you could not say it was a satire, you wiseacre?
10
What is this wiseacre stuff you are telling me?
11
Under the clothes lay buried Ketchup the blacksmith; under the wiseacre face was Ketchup the ignoramus.
12
Employing the hop-skip and jump type logic much loved by the pub bore and chattering wiseacre.
13
That is how things go on board your ship, sir wiseacre; and who shall count the wrecks?
14
Plus that, there's a wiseacre named Sherman.
15
Hartmann smiled; the guy was a wiseacre.
16
The wiseacre owls who started it did not see fit to put in an appearance before the committee.
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