Crossword-Solution: WISEACRE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Wiseacre | v. | A learned or wise man. |
| Wiseacre | v. | One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce. |
We have 22 clues for the answer “WISEACRE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| person who wishes to seem wise | 1 answer |
| Word that comes from the Dutch for "soothsayer" and, despite appearances, has no relation to a unit of measurement | 1 answer |
| Smart-alecky know-it-all | 1 answer |
| Smart aleck's rural address? | 1 answer |
| Smart alec | 1 answer |
| Sage field? | 1 answer |
| Sagacious fellow? | 1 answer |
| One who's smart? | 1 answer |
| GOTHAM, inhabitant of | 2 answers |
| Bugs Bunny, for one | 4 answers |
| Smarty | 5 answers |
| Smarty-pants | 7 answers |
| Alec role | 10 answers |
| self-opinionated person | 10 answers |
| ALECK, SMART | 11 answers |
| BALDWIN, ALEC | 11 answers |
| alec | 16 answers |
| Know-it-all | 21 answers |
| Whipper-snapper? | 26 answers |
| smart aleck | 41 answers |
| Wag | 51 answers |
| Joker | 57 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with WISEACRE (5)
What a little wiseacre you be!” Once I retorted, “You were thinking of that Tom McChesney.” “Ay, that she was, I’ll warrant,” snapped her grandfather.
The root (wise) is familiar to our ear; and in the old word Wiseacre, I can discern something of a similar sense and termination.
The wiseacre who invented these modes of flying in the air seems, some would say, to have been more in want of very strict confinement on the earth than of the freedom of the skies.
The error of these Jurmains, these Vrinch, these Inglitch, and these Amriccans (the latter, by the way, were our own immediate progenitors), was an error quite analogous with that of the wiseacre who fancies that he must necessarily see an object the better the more closely he holds it to his eyes.
Wiseacre having read in a book of an ingenious method of finding out a thief by making him put his hand into a sack (which, if guilty, the rogue would shirk from doing), all we boys were subjected to the trial.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, NY Sun, NYT, Three Across, Universal, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 26 times in crossword archives (1976–2024).