smart aleck

Example Sentences

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Some sued, some sent smart aleck responses and some refused to answer the email.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

OK, a smart aleck would say that’s a low bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2019

She’s still a downbeat smart aleck, but she can make you cry without appearing to do very much.

From Slate • Mar. 27, 2018

As Stengel later recalled: “You ought to have seen his face when he came out and saw that. Of course, he knew then that I was a big smart aleck, the same as himself.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2017

And if you tell ’em you knew a witty boy, you gotta tell ’em he was kind of a smart aleck, though, or a wise guy.

From "Nine Stories" by J. D. Salinger