Sentence examples for wisecracker from inspiring English sources

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wisecracker

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A person who makes wisecrack remarks; a smart aleck

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Murray, the wisecracker: The visual joke of pulling out a miniature camera before a vast bank of paparazzi embodies Murray's "old school vaudeville cabaret" tendencies.

I'd been expecting a fast-talking, Noo-Joisey wisecracker but he's more a slow-burn, wry anecdote kind of guy, occasionally making himself laugh – a deliberate ack-ack-ack sound somewhere in the back of his throat.

Parker was a satirist, a critic, a screenwriter, and, most famously, a self-described "wisecracker" who passed Bartlett's-ready remarks like "Brevity is the soul of lingerie".

Over the years, Stewart changed, too, from a leather-jacketed Gen X wisecracker, into the equivalent, for many viewers, of Walter Cronkite.

It's too late to win over the most important skeptic, Parker herself, who died worrying she would be remembered as a "wisecracker" and dismissed her cloying rhymes as "horribly dated".

The ginger-haired wisecracker Hunter, he of the obscure pop-culture references.

Even the estimable wisecracker Joan Rivers might want to hustle down to the Lyceum Theater, where the show opened on Broadway on Sunday night, to pick up a few pointers.

The problem is that while Rabin is terrific at being a wag and a wisecracker, he's less convincing in making his case for the movies that really speak to him.

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There are fearless and tender women in Shakespeare: heartstopping wannabe lovers, whores and handmaids, wisecrackers and wives, though I don't wish to reduce them further to one-word descriptions.

The three wisecrackers josh around callously as they watch the incendiary tapes, and then each one rates Patrick's and Renee's flaws.

And for "Face Off," Reveille is working with Woody Thompson, a co-creator of "Pop-Up Video," the VH1 creation in the 1990's that spurred a generation of wisecrackers to ironically and affectionately deconstruct the detritus of popular culture.

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