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smart-alecky
adjective as in impudent
Weak matches
- arrant
- assuming
- assumptive
- audacious
- barefaced
- blatant
- bold
- boldfaced
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- bumptious
- cheeky
- cocky
- contumelious
- cool
- familiar
- flip
- forward
- fresh
- immodest
- impertinent
- impudent
- insolent
- malapert
- nervy
- off-base
- overbold
- overconfident
- pert
- presuming
- presumptuous
- procacious
- pushy
- rude
- sassy
- saucy
- smart
- smart-ass
- unabashed
- unblushing
- wise
adjective as in impudent
adjective as in insolent
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adjective as in nervy
adjective as in pert
adjective as in precocious
adjective as in sarcastic
Strongest matches
adjective as in sardonic
adjective as in sassy
adjective as in saucy
adjective as in snotty
adjective as in boastful
adjective as in bold
adjective as in brazen
adjective as in malapert
Weak matches
- arrant
- assuming
- assumptive
- audacious
- barefaced
- blatant
- bold
- boldfaced
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- bumptious
- cheeky
- cocky
- contumelious
- cool
- disrespectful
- familiar
- flip
- flippant
- forward
- fresh
- immodest
- impertinent
- insolent
- nervy
- off-base
- overbold
- overconfident
- pert
- presuming
- presumptuous
- procacious
- pushy
- rude
- sassy
- saucy
- smart
- unabashed
- unblushing
- wise
adjective as in satiric
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- acerb
- acid
- acrimonious
- arrogant
- austere
- backhanded
- bitter
- brusque
- captious
- carping
- chaffing
- contemptuous
- contumelious
- cussed
- cutting
- cynical
- derisive
- disillusioned
- disparaging
- disrespectful
- evil
- hostile
- irascible
- ironical
- jeering
- mean
- needling
- offensive
- ornery
- salty
- saucy
- scoffing
- scorching
- scornful
- scurrilous
- severe
- sharp
- snarling
- sneering
- taunting
- twitting
- weisenheiming
adjective as in scoffing
Strong matches
adjective as in smart-alecky
Weak matches
- arrant
- assuming
- assumptive
- audacious
- barefaced
- blatant
- bold
- boldfaced
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- bumptious
- cheeky
- cocky
- contumelious
- cool
- familiar
- flip
- forward
- fresh
- immodest
- impertinent
- impudent
- insolent
- malapert
- nervy
- off-base
- overbold
- overconfident
- pert
- presuming
- presumptuous
- procacious
- pushy
- rude
- sassy
- saucy
- smart
- smart-ass
- unabashed
- unblushing
- wise
adjective as in snippety
Weak matches
adjective as in uppish
Weak matches
adjective as in conceited
adjective as in daring
adjective as in derisive
adjective as in aggressive
adjective as in discourteous
adjective as in disrespectful
adjective as in flippant
adjective as in forward
adjective as in fresh
adjective as in impertinent
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- arrogant
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- contumelious
- discourteous
- disgracious
- flip
- forward
- fresh
- ill-mannered
- impolite
- impudent
- inappropriate
- incongruous
- inquisitive
- insolent
- interfering
- intrusive
- lippy
- meddlesome
- meddling
- nosy
- off base
- offensive
- out of line
- pert
- presumptuous
- procacious
- prying
- rude
- sassy
- smart
- smart alecky
- uncalled-for
- uncivil
- ungracious
- unmannerly
- unsuitable
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Example Sentences
I busted a big hole in her right whar there was a smart-alecky Yankee colonel sailin' acrost on a horse.
Like as not Miss Connie'll be marryin' some smart-alecky, good-fer-nothin' fellow, then she'll be settled.
It is not "smart-alecky" at all, but has, rather, the sound of something genuinely felt.
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On this page you'll find 78 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smart-alecky, such as: arrant, assuming, assumptive, audacious, barefaced, and blatant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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