wiseassery
See also: wise-assery
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editwiseassery (uncountable)
- (vulgar) The act of being a wiseass; smartassery.
- 2019 May 21, Jim Windolf, “The Josh Holloway Interview: On Sawyer, Lost, and the Polar Bear”, in Radhika Jones, editor, Vanity Fair[1], New York, N.Y.: Condé Nast, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-03-24:
- Holloway has been a key cast member from the very start, lighting up the small screen with his charming wise-assery from the J.J. Abrams-directed pilot onward.
- 2016 December 3, Brian Raftery, “The New Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 Trailer Is Groot Stuff”, in Wired[2], San Francisco, C.A.: Condé Nast Publications, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2022-12-24:
- It's been more than two years since Guardians of the Galaxy got moviegoers hooked on Marvel's gang of wily space-explorers—and if the first full trailer for 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is any indication, you can expect even Gamora action, adventure, and interstellar wise-assery the second time around.
- 2019 July 12, Tim Kreider, “The World According to Mad Magazine”, in The New York Times[3], New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 2023-05-24:
- But these boys grew up to become two of "the usual gang of idiots" — the stable of artists for Mad magazine, who turned teenage wiseassery into an art form and an institution, and eventually turned all America into one big high school cafeteria.