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Usage examples of wisecrack.

The ironist is not bitter, he does not seek to undercut everything that seems worthy or serious, he scorns the cheap scoring-off of the wisecracker.

While he waited, he spent each day shuffling rhythmically around the entrance of the operations tent, making boisterous wisecracks to everybody who came by and jocosely calling Sergeant Towser a lousy son of a bitch every time Sergeant Towser popped out of the orderly room.

Rec Room she saw that Vini and Sora were engaged in a game of space billiards, with Bred watching and making wisecracks as they played.

He wheelies around the bar firing wisecracks and sizzles across the dance floor towards us.

While Prex was watching the stage with a dead-pan expression, Mike Borlo and Snipe Shailey were exchanging wisecracks.

Sergeant Schenk, too, had joined the game and though the terrorist did not understand a word of what was being yelled at him in German, the men entertained themselves with filthy oaths and wisecracks just to keep up spirit: Finally the prisoner tumbled and fell on the hard ground and remained folded up with his hands protecting his loins and his head between his knees.

Harrison would think she was a brownnosing phony, pretending interest as a way of apologizing for the wisecracks she had made in Mr.

He accepted drinks from the players and even started exchanging wisecracks with them.

So, they tended to look down on Ashkenazim as the equivalent of "country rubes"—a disdain which the Ashkenazim returned in kind, much as Morris' hillbilly neighbors made wisecracks about city slickers.

So, they tended to look down on Ashkenazim as the equivalent of "country rubes"—a disdain which the Ashkenazim returned in kind, much as Morris' hillbilly neighbors made wisecracks about city slickers.

She was a badgerer, a harridan, a snarling viper with a sure mouth for the wisecrack and a ready fang for the jugular.

I was banjaxed, out for luncheon, voiceless and mindless, for -the first time in my life caught without a wisecrack behind which to take refuge.

It ill behooves you to make cheap wisecracks at persons appointed by the Company to supervise your training and welfare.

Yet at the start of the night when you came out for warm-up and could see all the town clunkers sitting in the back of bleachers elbowing each other and the cheerleaders wisecracking with the racier male teachers, the crowd then seemed right inside you, your liver and lungs and stomach.

James' wisecrack about Grantville's sanitation was bound to be the prelude to another of the doctor's frequent tirades on the subject of the lunacy of political leaders in general, and those of the Confederated Principalities of Europe in particular.