smart-mouthed
Example Sentences
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It’s Sessa’s film debut, and he makes the most of it playing a troubled, smart-mouthed student who isn’t old enough to eat cherries jubilee at a restaurant.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 28, 2023
She is also smart-mouthed, and has no problem speaking out.
From Salon • Jun. 10, 2021
By then, Mr. Breslin was a celebrity — the irrepressible smart-mouthed New Yorker writ large.
From Washington Post • Mar. 19, 2017
Soon after that, she became the beloved soul sister of C-list high school girls everywhere, playing the brainy, center-parted, smart-mouthed Patty on CBS’s short-lived “Square Pegs.”
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2016
Something about this situation got my inner smart-mouthed child going.
From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick
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