Flippant fellow

Usage examples of wiseguy.

He was behaving rashly, and a wiseguy needed a cool head at all times.

Levin, Fields Medal nominee, post-adolescent genius and wiseguy, the young man who Stephen Hawking says has made the greatest contributions to quantum gravity, the guy who, if you ask him a simple question you get a pageant, endless lectures on chrono-string theory, complexity theory, algebraic number theory, how many pepperonis can dance on the point of a pizza.

One of the girls there was a source of his, she bounced around with a lot of would-be wiseguys and had some good information.

Trigger being used as he had been promised it would be - of would-be bombers killed by their own bombs, of despots deposed and armies deprived of their armories, of thugs and punks and wiseguys stripped of their finely machined blued-steel masculinity.

Buck Hoey, the wiseguy shortstop who’d bellyached about the first baseman who hadn’t come to practice, hopped down last, near a blue frame house with more shrubs and a prettier paint job than any house around it.

If I could play ball in the Chattahoochee heat, why’d so many of these wiseguy doughboys seem to think I couldn’t charge into Jap artillery fire?

Wiseguys value life about as much as they value used dental floss.

Wiseguy, and I can still see better than ninety-nine per cent of the fogies my age.

You probably got six wiseguys in this place, every one of them with about four guns, and the two of you are going batshit over a kid in a crapper.

Living forever in the Weequahic section, and playing softball on Chancellor Avenue from nine to one on Sundays, a perfect joining of clown and competitor, kibbitzing wiseguy and dangerous long-ball bitter.