smarty-pants

Example Sentences

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I folded my hands together on top of my desk and nodded toward my bedroom door, hoping Miss Smarty-Pants could take a hint.

From Literature

Those smarty-pants Yippies understood that.

From Salon

Anger — fueled by the cruelty of politics, by the indignities of capitalism, by Costello’s somewhat creepy ideas about women — was no impediment to productivity as punk’s smarty-pants polemicist banged out the nearly five dozen songs found on his first four studio albums.

From Los Angeles Times

“Jez is a smarty-pants,” Jay said.

From Literature

But try as it might — and oh how it tries, mightily — to be a “meta-slasher whodunit,” as one of the high school crews puts it, this “Scream” feels less like a movie than a podcast about a movie, one hosted by a claque of irritating, smarty-pants commentators who don’t know when to shut up.

From Washington Post