What's the difference between smartie and wiseacre?

Smartie


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I really want to say thank you for the kind way my decrepit body was washed; how, in the middle of the night when I felt overwhelmed, a nurse stopped what she was doing and held my hand; the cake covered in Smarties the catering staff brought me for my birthday; the smiles and jokes with the staff to pass the long days; and Mr Burbos (one of the handsome consultant surgeons) who has been so generous with his time and care.
  • (2) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
  • (3) And keeping the law's Whiplash Willies away from "light-touch" arbitration is like handing Lance Armstrong a tube of Smarties.
  • (4) After all that talk of chocolate we couldn’t resist the Bogtrotter cake loaded with smarties, marshmallows and maltesers (£2.50).
  • (5) Additionally, children nearly always stated that the posted card displayed a picture of Smarties, and that the tube really contained pencils.
  • (6) The Bookseller pointed out that it is not the first time Booktrust has come under fire for its choice of sponsor – it worked with Nestle between 1985 and 2007 on the Nestle Smarties book prize – but authors including Melvin Burgess and Gillian Cross signed a letter in 2003 announcing they did "not wish to be associated" with the award, in protest at Nestle's promotion of powdered baby milk in developing countries.
  • (7) You can see a PowerPoint I made for a lesson on this along with some sheets we use for pupils to write their manifestos for the nation's sweet - here is a blank one so pupils can choose their own sweets or there are some with the sweets already on: after eights , or smarties or jelly babies .
  • (8) As in previous studies, children very often judged that they had believed a Smarties tube contained pencils when these were revealed as the true content, even though they had stated "Smarties" before the tube had been opened.
  • (9) In Tower Block of Commons , another "reality" show, she was alleged to have hidden £50 down her bra and to be handing out Temazepam like Smarties.
  • (10) Under another condition, when the tube was first presented, children mailed a picture into a postbox of what they thought was inside (Smarties).
  • (11) the great majority of children answered correctly with "Smarties".

Wiseacre


Definition:

  • (v.) A learned or wise man.
  • (v.) One who makes undue pretensions to wisdom; a would-be-wise person; hence, in contempt, a simpleton; a dunce.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For too long, Chris Bosh has been attacked as soft, in often borderline sexist terms, by everyone from Shaquille O'Neal (who memorably called him "the RuPaul of big men" back in his actually amusing pre-analyst days) to wiseacres on Twitter .
  • (2) Another wiseacre has convinced himself that making people laugh is exerting some kind of power over them.
  • (3) (The wiseacres on Twitter suggested an alternate theory: Bryant just didn't want to be stuck in the locker room with Howard for the rest of the game and, quite frankly, who could blame him?)
  • (4) Dane DeHaan, John C Reilly, Molly Shannon and a lot of other people you recognize co-star in this story of a wiseacre girl who becomes a zombie.

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