How to Use wise guy in a Sentence

wise guy

noun

• Quit being a wise guy.
• No more wise-guy remarks, got it?
• Eight teams have a better record, and the wise guys in Vegas have the Sox 20-to-1 to win the World Series again.
  — Peter Abraham, BostonGlobe.com, 9 July 2019
• And he's already found his first case: finding the wise guy who may have planted the bomb that was meant for Stabler but killed Kathy, instead.
  — Lynette Rice, EW.com, 2 Apr. 2021
• Forget about the mule or the money, or three wise guys with myrrh: This piece of evergreen is pure holiday cheer.
  — Natalie Angier, New York Times, 11 Dec. 2017
• But there are reports Democrats are considering ditching her in the fall, wise idea, wise guy?
  — Fox News, 16 Mar. 2018
• When word reached Hartford, every wise guy between Springfield and New Haven wanted a piece of the action.
  — Edmund H. Mahony, courant.com, 1 Aug. 2019
• This wise guy action has helped push the point spread to four after initially going up on the board with Washington laying a field goal.
  — Alex Kay, Forbes, 16 Sep. 2021
• And Gerwig is rather introspective, earnest and internal, while Dunne was more businesslike, and in comedies, more of a wise guy.
  — Mick Lasalle, San Francisco Chronicle, 11 Jan. 2018
• Now, this is the point when some wise guy jumps in and suggests that if there are so many silver linings to losing, then the Spurs should just try to lose every night to maximize their draft chances.
  — Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News, 1 May 2021
• The good is that a robot mayor of Chicago would possess high intelligence and wouldn’t care about flattering wise guys, hedge fund bosses and public unions.
  — John Kass, chicagotribune.com, 20 Apr. 2018
• One of our all-time favorites, John Hughes’ 1986 comedy classic stars Matthew Broderick as a high school wise guy determined to have a day off from school, despite what the principal thinks of that.
  — Ben Flanagan | [e-mail], al, 1 Aug. 2021
• Author-columnist Jimmy Breslin, the legendary street-smart chronicler of wise guys and underdogs, died at his Manhattan home at age 87.
  — BostonGlobe.com, 19 Mar. 2018
• Inside were trigger-happy wise guys, a heretofore unexcavated piece of gay history and a lady who took charge of her own destiny while living in a world run by violent, retribution-crazed men.
  — Margy Rochlin, Los Angeles Times, 16 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 26 Sep 2024