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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
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.—
Spencer Kornhaber,
The Atlantic,
12 Dec. 2025
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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.—
Pete Hammond,
Deadline,
4 Aug. 2025
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This is not this quipster’s first time at the reality-television rodeo.—
Brian Moylan,
Vulture,
6 Mar. 2026
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A lot of actors could have played him as a sardonic quipster.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
31 Oct. 2023
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As disarming as Rockwell is with his wry balance of doofus, savant and wiseass, and as capable as Verbinski is at keeping the brushes with death coming at a sustained pace, the movie feels most original in its flashbacks.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
5 Feb. 2026
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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.—
Randall Colburn,
EW.com,
2 Apr. 2025
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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.—
Caryn James,
HollywoodReporter,
30 Aug. 2025
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The wise guys already view Denver suspiciously, casting them with the 12th-best odds to reach the Super Bowl next February.—
Troy Renck,
Denver Post,
1 Feb. 2026
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Framing wise guys on murder charges for Whitey Bulger, looking the other way on a gangland hit by a BPD detective in Canton in 1976, the list of scandals is too great to even list them all.—
Howie Carr,
Boston Herald,
14 Jan. 2026
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When Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor first became a tabloid character in the 1980s, he was best known for his prankster nature, naval service, and a few scandalous girlfriends.—
Erin Vanderhoof,
Vanity Fair,
19 Feb. 2026
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He’s known as a kind of technological monk, oscillating between prankster and doomsayer.—
Zachary Fine,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
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Also, the movie knows when to ease up on the wisenheimer instinct.—
Michael Phillips,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Sep. 2023
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Stan is a bit of a wisenheimer, and Sandler puts his natural yappiness to good use.—
Mark Feeney,
BostonGlobe.com,
9 June 2022
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With the Wolf system, scouts watch entire game film rather than relying on highlight tapes and cutups.—
Dan Pompei,
New York Times,
2 Feb. 2026
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You and Ricci, the two biggest cutups in San Antonio radio.—
Megan Rodriguez,
San Antonio Express-News,
1 Jan. 2026
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“Wisecracker.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/wisecracker. Accessed 10 Mar. 2026.
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