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- noun Alternative spelling of
wiseguy .
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Examples
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Plus, withholding information fits Marlowe's wise-guy character.
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There is lots of wise-guy bantering and sarcasm, some of it clever.
Shira Dicker: Hook Up vs. Shut Up: Yeshiva University’s Sex Story Controversy Shira Dicker 2011
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There is lots of wise-guy bantering and sarcasm, some of it clever.
Shira Dicker: Hook Up vs. Shut Up: Yeshiva University’s Sex Story Controversy Shira Dicker 2011
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Plus, withholding information fits Marlowe's wise-guy character.
Archive 2009-01-01 2009
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His three wise-guy friends tried and tried again to get him to accept the blame and change his ways, but he told them angrily that he was already doing everything right.
Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Can The Question That Troubles Our Faith Really Be Answered? Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011
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He and I developed the site's sensibility and wise-guy voice a while back, and now he does most of the writing and editing.
Dan Lybarger: Mixing Pulp and Politics: An Interview with Doonesbury 's Garry Trudeau Dan Lybarger 2010
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MR: Your new album, How To Become Clairvoyant, is a very personal album for you, even though it's got this kind of "wise-guy" title.
Mike Ragogna: How To Become Clairvoyant: A Conversation with Robbie Robertson Mike Ragogna 2011
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•The skinny: O'Hair, 27, ranked No. 19, was a wise-guy pick in the U.S.
After winning a major title, golfers live in the spotlight 2009
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MR: Your new album, How To Become Clairvoyant, is a very personal album for you, even though it's got this kind of "wise-guy" title.
Mike Ragogna: How To Become Clairvoyant: A Conversation with Robbie Robertson Mike Ragogna 2011
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His three wise-guy friends tried and tried again to get him to accept the blame and change his ways, but he told them angrily that he was already doing everything right.
Rev. Peter M. Wallace: Can The Question That Troubles Our Faith Really Be Answered? Rev. Peter M. Wallace 2011
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