Sentence examples for wisecrack from inspiring English sources

The word "wisecrack" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a joke, usually a humorous one, or to talk about when someone says something sarcastic. For example, "John made a wisecrack about the weather, but no one laughed."

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wisecrack

noun

A witty or sarcastic comment or quip.

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Marcos Baghdatis, the world No 42, smiled in his third-round match with Murray but as Murray has pointed out, his rivals at the top do not wisecrack through matches.

Tanner King Barklow and Mr. Kofman, who share directorial credit and a friendship, erroneously assume that there's an inherent interest to watching someone else kvetch and wisecrack.

Jeb's older brother, Governor George Bush of Texas, is a master of the sweaty handshake, the shoulder-squeeze, the wisecrack: there is no hint of got-to-keep-on-schedule in his eyes.

It angered many Poles at the time, as did a later wisecrack about the pope.

For in Cairo, as he writes, jokes are a form of currency: a wisecrack from even the most importunate beggar will win instant reward.

A bit like Keynes's wisecrack about practical men being slaves of a defunct economist, financiers and regulators were slaves of defunct finance professors.One important consequence of this reasoning emerged in a quote from David Viniar, chief financial officer of Goldman Sachs, the investment bank, in August 2007.

An old Czech wisecrack is that (President Václav Klaus's tennis racket would win in Prague. The new joke is that Schwarzenberg's pipe can. It is possible that the two old parties (ODS and ČSSD) will hammer out a grand coalition and bypass the winner.

The wisecrack has a painful sting.

"I doubt that they could say,'Pass the cornflakes,' without it becoming a wisecrack".

The contradictory wisecrack would not have been lost on Motian for, despite his constant forays into free playing, his roots were palpably in classic jazz.

Francis, a comedian known for his deadpan one-liners, picked up the fifth annual Dave Award for the Funniest Joke of the Fringe for the wisecrack: "You know who really gives kids a bad name?

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