Example sentences for: wisecracking

How can you use “wisecracking” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • In a flash McCain is off, wisecracking, talking seriously about his campaign and his life, engaging in badinage with aides and teasing his good-natured spouse, who sits a couple of seats away, trying to talk to their daughter back home in Arizona about her lacrosse game on a cell phone.

  • It lacks the wisecracking edge and the snappy repartee of Lewis' best writing.

  • Mixed reviews on this spinoff of the animated Nickelodeon series featuring a pack of wisecracking toddlers.

  • I may be jumping to conclusions based on the fact that Shayamalan is Indian-American, but The Sixth Sense strikes me as philosophically rather complicated, and possibly in dialogue with some non-Western ideas you don't get to see too often in films, unless they're uttered in egregiously bad faith by a wisecracking, turban-wearing showboat like Whoopi Goldberg or Robin Williams.

  • Dorothy Parker once noted that Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words.


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