How To Use wiseacre In A Sentence
- This was said with a kind of contempt which was quite a floorer to the new wiseacre. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847
- The Wiseacre back-pedalled on his promise… ‘If any challenger is successful, I hereby declare that I will support him or her in their use of these titles’.
- Everybody is a wiseacre, a kvetcher, or working an angle, sometimes all three. CNN Transcript Mar 24, 2006
- The same faithful gomeral is to despatch this letter by the express along with those of the wiseacres, so that you may hear Tom Fool in company with Solomon. David Balfour, a sequel to Kidnapped.
- When she barked, they straightened in the chair and when she raised a brow they commenced rehearsing the wiseacre questions that had been scripted for them.
- Full of this idea, the scientific gentleman seized his pen again, and committed to paper sundry notes of these unparalleled appearances, with the date, day, hour, minute, and precise second at which they were visible: all of which were to form the data of a voluminous treatise of great research and deep learning, which should astonish all the atmospherical wiseacres that ever drew breath in any part of the civilised globe. The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club
- Either way, the name stuck - providing great fodder for annoying wiseacres all over the state.
- It possesses a pigeonry much like that at Brantôme, but on a smaller scale, that wiseacres have pronounced to be a Columbarium, not for doves, but for the reception of jars containing the ashes of the dead, and have attributed this dovecote to Roman times. Castles and Cave Dwellings of Europe
- For years, successive generations of caddies lived up to their reputation as low-life wiseacres who always knew better than the guy who was paying them and were not afraid to say so.
- Of gigantic stature, broad-shouldered, with blond hair, ruddy complexion, and deep voice, he owed to his crafty shrewdness the soubriquet of "Guiscard" (Wiseacre). The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability