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
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
And when you insult him with a smart-alecky answer about buying cows, you are sending up a red flag that you are hiding something.
From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2014
But they were a little too smart-alecky for my taste.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
