Why, did not a wiseacre in Blackwood's Magazine lately fall foul of "Tom Jones?
Or, if somewiseacre did prepare such a book, would it be very useful to children?
That girl is one in a thousand," he said to Ethel more than once; "and I was such a wiseacre that I thought her a useless, spoiled creature who would never be anything but a domestic fetich.
The same ridiculous claim of being the corner-stone of human society has been made by some wiseacre in behalf of the goat.
It was a standing boast with Mr. Wiseacre that he had never been humbugged in his life.
As Wiseacre showed him particular attention, he frequently called in to see him at his store, and sometimes spent an evening with him at his dwelling.
With all these skeptics and half-skeptics Wiseacre was out of all patience.
The more Wiseacresaw of him, and the more he heard him converse, the higher did he rise in his opinion.
Toward the lukewarm, the doubting, and the denying, Wiseacre was in direct antagonism.
A quiet, thoughtful-looking man once brought to Mr. Wiseacre a letter of introduction.
But Mr. Wiseacre was caught napping once in his life, and that completely.
And so Mr. Wiseacre treats almost every thing that makes its appearance.
I was very much disappointed at this, as it was wholly unexpected, and Wiseacre and I had promised ourselves much pleasure in trading with them; for which purpose all the buttons of our old waistcoats had been amputated.
Occasionally Wiseacre and I amused ourselves with fishing excursions to the middle of the bay in small boats; in which excursions we were usually accompanied by two or three very ragged little boys from the town.
A wiseacre has said that he left a sterile monument.
We need some one to keep us all straight, we Vagabonds; but it seems queer that such a small wiseacre as you should be our controlling power.
The mere sight of the small wiseacre had a comforting effect upon her.
But wiseacre publics never stop to think that many a government is forced to do foolish and even suicidal things in war simply because it represents the ignorance and folly, as well as the wisdom, of all who have the vote.
Equally of course, it afterwards drew down the wrath of the wiseacre public on their own representatives.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "wiseacre" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: smarty; wisdom; witling
