What's the difference between sarcastic and wisecrack?

Sarcastic


Definition:

  • (a.) Alt. of Sarcastical

Example Sentences:

  • (1) As Robert Vittek put Slovakia 5-1 ahead on 59 minutes, hundreds were heading for the exits while many of the remaining fans sarcastically cheered the most routine saves from their goalkeeper.
  • (2) Persepolis , the Greek name for Persia, is desperately moving and extremely funny - a little girl's sarcastic love letter to her family.
  • (3) "When you read the book, he sounds more sarcastic and snarky, closer to Holden Caulfield ," he says, "but with Dustin Hoffman it feels genuinely rabbit-in-the-headlights."
  • (4) Now, though, the staycationers are coming and the donkeys are less sarcastic.
  • (5) There's nothing defensive or snippy or sarcastic about his tone when he tells you that he can't act, or carries on as if his entire professional life is a kind of complicated mistake: he's actually rather charming company.
  • (6) "There's the side that wants to go along with it, but there's also a very sarcastic, sceptical side."
  • (7) They make sarcastic remarks about Reader being a so- called “master criminal”.
  • (8) "Here are the internet terrorists," their lawyer Rémy Josseaume sarcastically told the court in the southern town of Rodez on Tuesday.
  • (9) He does not have experience but he has potential.” Mourinho had a sarcastic comment for Fifa, after hearing that the governing body had made a statement about the on-going fallout from Mohamed Salah’s season-long loan move to Roma.
  • (10) It grinds us down until we adopt a worldview that is pessimistic, desensitised, sarcastic and fatalistic.
  • (11) From the opening lines of Vietnam, Grant's set was sad, funny, tortured, sarcastic and, frankly, pure bloody perfection.
  • (12) That match too had its moments – notably when the Serb made a sarcastic racket-slap in response to the crowd’s cheer for a double fault that led to a break in a sloppy second set.
  • (13) The Chelsea manager, José Mourinho , has been fined after his sarcastic appraisal of officials following the defeat by Sunderland.
  • (14) But what Clegg's rightwing and leftwing critics miss, as do predictably sarcastic journalists, is that this is precisely the point.
  • (15) Or as CBS Sports' Zach Harper sarcastically noted : "Can't wait for that nationally televised Heat-Bobcats game coming up."
  • (16) He said Christie laughed and made a sarcastic joke when he learned of Sokolich’s distress over not getting his calls returned.
  • (17) Countering that complaint Israel’s UN ambassador, Ron Prosor, sent what the Israeli mission called a “sarcastic letter” to the security council listing acts of incitement by the Palestinian leadership, including last month’s drive-by shooting of a Jewish activist who had pushed for greater Jewish access to the sacred hilltop compound.
  • (18) The Valencia reporter for Onda Cero radio called it a “lack of respect”, while in AS it was described sarcastically as “English humour”.
  • (19) Not only did it get a sarcastic jeer from the Tories, but it made Vince ratty.
  • (20) Here's where I should warn readers that I may sometimes be sarcastic.

Wisecrack


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Billy Connolly wisecracking about Iraq hostage Ken Bigley?
  • (2) It's not hard to picture her, dodging the autograph-hunters, wisecracking at the tombstones, seizing life while she can.
  • (3) Empson, unforgettable as wisecracking Jamaican gossip Mrs Aphrodite in the Theatre Royal ska musical The Big Life in 2004, is mouthwatering casting as the Queen.
  • (4) Almost exactly the same gag features in a surviving Roman joke book: the Philogelos (or Laughter Lover ), a collection of wisecracks probably compiled in the fourth or fifth century AD.
  • (5) Outside of the octagon, Bisping possesses the demeanour of an oversized Ricky Hatton - all mischievous grins, wisecracks and gentle ribbing of his sparring partners.
  • (6) He plays a wisecracking badass called Snow who's tasked to rescue the president's daughter from a giant space prison overrun by its violent inmates.
  • (7) He responds to serious criticism by a biting wisecrack or diversionary personal attack.
  • (8) Tell that to Tessa, the 17-year-old heroine of Ol Parker's film Now Is Good, whose attitude is more rage against the dying of the light, while wisecracking.
  • (9) And it's not only the comedians who are being scrutinised – in May of this year, actress Jennifer Lawrence was criticised for her wisecrack about breaking out her "rape scream" for a director she admired.
  • (10) Bitcoin's crash is less of a currency crisis than an opportune moment for internet wisecracks.
  • (11) Feel free at this point to wonder aloud whether Gianfranco Zola has been hired as a player rather than manager and to make hilarious wisecracks about imminent swoops for Bruno Conte, Gigi Riva and Sophia Loren.
  • (12) Then there’s The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea , a film starring and produced by Jessica Biel, about a widower who teams up with a wisecracking girl (Williams; who else?)
  • (13) The machine is not about to write nuanced profiles or wisecracking think pieces.
  • (14) He continued in the same wisecracking vein opposite Jane Russell in two spoof Westerns, The Paleface (1948), in which he was a correspondence-school dentist, and Son Of Paleface (1952) where, having caused derision among cowboys in a saloon by ordering milk, Hope quickly adds "in a dirty glass".
  • (15) As well as the ubiquitous wisecracks, Twitter suits fast-breaking news snaps and statistics and so works well on results night.
  • (16) The line narrowly edged out an Alex Horne wisecrack: "I used to work in a shoe-recycling shop.
  • (17) This year's films that no-one wanted to see Read more Matt Damon’s turn as a wisecracking astronaut who finds himself stranded on Mars helped The Martian reclaim the top spot in its fourth week of release with a solid $15.9m (£10.3m), which now gives it a total of $166.4m.
  • (18) went one of the many wisecracks circulating on the internet after it was revealed that the Chelsea and England captain had failed in an attempt to gag reporting of his personal life.
  • (19) Just last week he was to be found wisecracking with his tormentors from the mainstream media and pouring them drinks at the party’s Christmas get-together.
  • (20) A 30th anniversary sequel to Raymond Briggs's beloved tale, its arrival brings grave fears of a sausage-fingered "reimagining", with wisecracking canine sidekicks, airborne high-fives and the unveiling of Olly Murs's new single, Flyin' (Don't Melt Tonight), taking a CGI shovel to a nation's memories.

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