Sentence examples for a wiseass from inspiring English sources

"It was more of a joke, a wiseass way I have," Ailes would later claim while nonetheless confirming its meaning.

"Simon Cowell is a wiseass and is putting all his effort into leaving American Idol in the dust.

"With a character like Jeff Winger," he says, "it's Joel McHale's charm and timing that stops him from being too much of a wiseass.

In "Amundsen," the story about the schoolteacher and the doctor, there's a character both the principals wish weren't there: a schoolgirl named Mary, clever, needy, a bit of a wiseass, who turns up at inopportune moments.

Thursday 30, 9pm, C4 Film Shrek A grumpy ogre, a wiseass donkey and a princess who's quite capable of saving herself... Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy and Cameron Diaz voice this inspired unfairytale.

The pursuit of good exam results was hardly that of a wiseass, and since this was all I really had – my position provided me with so much that I had hungered for – everyone knew who I was.

The hero: Alan Scott, the original Green Lantern The outpouring of love for Guardians of the Galaxy must particularly irk Warner Bros, who recently launched a human wiseass into a colourful space adventure with 2011's Green Lantern to almost complete audience indifference.

When I'm not writing dark creepy books, or being a superhero wiseass of the stupid, I spend my time advocating for a very important character who inspires me more than any writer, crime fighter or alien.

He comes back with a flourish in Seamus Scanlon's Dancing with Lunacy in an indelibly rendered character named McGowan, an offbeat wiseass, fuelled by manic energy and freshly brewed tea, a pop music-loving, gun-toting, Clockwork Orange-caliber sociopath for the Republican cause.

Karen Duffy, a model, MTV vee-jay and author of "Model Patient: My Life as an Incurable Wiseass" (HarperCollins, $24), was raised in the borough and graduated in 1979 with Mr. Gandolfini.

Before the interview starts, he's friendly and charismatic, joking around like any wiseass kid.