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as in wiseacre
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Recent Examples of wisecracker
Perry was best known for playing lovable wisecracker Chandler Bing on the hit sitcom Friends, and also starred in films like Fools Rush In and 17 Again.
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Ryan Coleman, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Dec. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for wisecracker
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The 40-year-old singer Ryan Davis, a cowboy wiseacre with a drum machine and the patience for 11-minute anthems, riffs merrily on such existential mysteries.—
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In 1982’s hit action comedy 48 Hours, a young Eddie Murphy plays a wiseacre criminal on parole in order to help a veteran cop, played by Nick Nolte, solve a case.—
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A lot of actors could have played him as a sardonic quipster.—
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Norman Gee makes a wry quipster as the fool Touchstone and doubles as Orlando’s aged and weary servant Adam, whose role is considerably cut back.—
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One year after his debut in Top Secret! and one year before stepping up as Top Gun's Iceman, Kilmer led Martha Coolidge's comedy Real Genius, playing a Caltech wiz-kid (and hard-partying wiseass) tasked with designing a chemical laser.—
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But since the emergence of a kinder, gentler Deadpool in the wiseass character’s first stand-alone movie, Wade has carried on a long-distance flirtation with Wolverine.—
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This new film is a very black comedy that is also a heist story with some bloody violence, along with a bit of knockabout slapstick and a theme of family bonds.—
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Broncos Country believes in this team, but the wise guys do not.—
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Your corner defined you — wise guys as well as cops.—
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But how exactly did Paul transition his brand from controversial YouTube prankster to professional boxer?—
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And Belushi, who is nothing short of a revelation in Stewart’s feature directing debut, would adjust his register, finding the sadness drowning in a sea of booze and revealing the struggling family man hiding behind the prankster persona.—
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Also, the movie knows when to ease up on the wisenheimer instinct.—
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Stan is a bit of a wisenheimer, and Sandler puts his natural yappiness to good use.—
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You and Ricci, the two biggest cutups in San Antonio radio.—
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There is a video cutup that has frequented social media over the last year featuring all of Edwards’ missed shots at the end of close games.—
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“Wisecracker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wisecracker. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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