smarty-pants
Example Sentences
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People always enjoy a critical savaging, and there’s satisfaction in seeing a smarty-pants taken down a peg.
From The Guardian • Nov. 16, 2019
Green’s characters are sweet, hyperverbal smarty-pants; they memorize poetry and say things like “I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2018
This smarty-pants spirit was on display in April at the Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner, where the honored guests included a table of fact-checkers.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 15, 2017
The book is “half-tell-all memoir, half-self-help manual,” all delivered in McHale’s signature, smarty-pants style.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2016
When he saw me laughing at him, he was like, “Okay, smarty-pants, if you can do it better then show me.”
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
