smart-alecky
Example Sentences
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“I’ve said repeatedly that his answers to the questions and I watched him, were smart-alecky, untruthful, and misleading,” Fox News reporters cited him saying.
From Salon • May 9, 2019
“I guess I was in a smart-alecky mood that day.”
From Slate • Feb. 14, 2019
Even in its early days, when the company was perceived as bunch of hooligan hipsters wreaking havoc with classics like “Our Town,” the Wooster Group wasn’t just being smart-alecky.
From New York Times • May 10, 2018
Which is a smart-alecky way of noting that all drafts are pretty equally critical at the time they are held, even if their impact on the team may turn out vastly different.
From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2018
“I don’t know if I want to,” I say with a smart-alecky grin.
From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen
