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
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
The tone of Slate in those days was smart—and often smart-alecky.
From Slate • Sep. 30, 2016
The book, which Mr. Fest completed just before his death in 2006, describes in rich detail the moral education and day-to-day experiences of a sensitive, if smart-alecky, member of the Bildungsbürgertum.
From New York Times • Feb. 18, 2014
Even Mark, who normally had a smart-alecky comeback for everything, was stupefied.
From "Among the Hidden" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
