wiseassery
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
1
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "Holloway has been a key cast member from the very start, lighting up the small screen with his charming wise-assery from the J.J. Abrams-directed pilot onward."
- "It's been more than two years since Guardians of the Galaxy got moviegoers hooked on Marvel's gang of wily space-explorers—and if the first full trailer for 2017's Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 is any indication, you can expect even Gamora action, adventure, and interstellar wise-assery the second time around."
- "But these boys grew up to become two of "the usual gang of idiots" — the stable of artists for Mad magazine, who turned teenage wiseassery into an art form and an institution, and eventually turned all America into one big high school cafeteria."
Etymology
From wiseass + -ery.