Sentence examples for wise-guy from inspiring English sources

Much of the credit for this appears to go to Mr. Jemas, a self-deprecating wise guy in the great Marvel wise-guy tradition.

Opera purists should know that this production is no slice of wise-guy revisionism.

There is none of the wise-guy patter one associates with the genre.

Galotti seems to have developed his wise-guy persona partly in response.

The dialogue has the wise-guy perkiness, if not always the wit, of the overeducated young.

The skepticism is wise-guy thick.

"A wise guy, huh?

Oh, a wise guy, y'know.

A wise guy, I thought.

"Wise guy," he said.

K. wise guy.