The word "wiseacre" is a valid and widely used term in written English.
It is a noun used to describe someone who is overly opinionated, clever, sarcastic, or irritatingly witty. For example, "John always has something smart to say, he's such a wiseacre."
ACCORDING to an old Church of England joke, some wiseacre hoping to elicit a subtle theological statement asked a bishop what he thought about sin.
After that game Rooney made a statement that still lingers in the mind far more powerfully than any wiseacre tweet or re-fashioned hair transplant.
Even in the heat of battle, Robert Downey Jr's Iron Man is joshing away in his usual wiseacre fashion.
A century ago, Finley Peter Dunne's fictional wiseacre Mr. Dooley remarked that "no matter whether th' constitution follows th' flag or not, th' supreme court follows th' iliction returns".
The only difference is that a bit of your scar tissue, which some wiseacre had placed in the deepfreeze will be taken out and incubated.
(The wiseacre is to the sitcom as the mastermind is to the drama).
A bit better is the cop comedy "Brooklyn Nine-Nine," on Fox, which has the most unusual concept of the season: "Barney Miller" meets "Police Squad!" So far, the show relies too heavily on Andy Samberg as a Bill Murray-style wiseacre.
Like Koch, who at the beginning of his reign struck people as a refreshing New York wiseacre, Livingstone impressed even those who didn't agree with him politically as a "cheeky chappie" — an irreverent working-class maverick who wasn't afraid to stand up to the rulers of his own party or to the Iron Lady herself.
Rather than dispatching its legal correspondents to write about it, newspapers would do better to send their comic-strip artists, or, if they can find one in this age of solemnity, an old-fashioned wiseacre in the mold of the late Art Buchwald or Mike Royko.
July 24: The festival turns the evening over to a most deserving celebrant, the saxophonist, flutist, and general wiseacre James Moody.
A crowd of sweaty fans — including a guy in a memorial-golf-tournament polo shirt, a group of dressed-up girls, an older woman who yelled at anyone who moved into her sight line, and a stout wiseacre in a tank top and a gold chain — anticipated the show in varying stages of mirth and anxiety.
