wisecracking
Speech parts
1. wisecracking - Adjective
2. wisecracking - Verb
Meaning
wisecracking (comparative more wisecracking, superlative most wisecracking)
Making many wisecracks.
a wisecracking narrator
wisecracking
present participle of wisecrack
Synonyms
Examples
I admire hard-bitten, wisecracking realism of Ida Lupino and the film noir heroines. I'm sick of simpering white girls with their princess fantasies.
There's none of this wisecracking and cynicism that you see in ... some of the other cartoons. He's supposed to be a role model for kids. He cares about other people.
You need a wisecracking buddy standing next to you? That's the role for me. You got the guys who are knock-down, drag-out handsome. That's what people want to see. Let that guy be the hero. But there's always a role for the Everyman.
I played a lot of sarcastic, wisecracking characters for a long time, and people would think that was me. And it's very much not me, and then people would think I was being sarcastic when I wasn't: 'Oh, you're making fun of me right now.' And I wasn't!
Director Lewis Milestone punctuates the action with the cynical wisecracking of reporters at the city jail while highlighting the battle between the crafty editor and his shrewd reporter, with hilarious results despite the poor quality of the soundtrack.
Imagine one of Jacqueline Wilson’s wisecracking heroines a little older, transplanted to north-east Paris.