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View definitions for smart alec

smart alec

noun as in saucebox

noun as in smart aleck

noun as in smarty-pants/smarty pants

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Example Sentences

"Michael Heseltine turned to me and said, 'I'm not having some little smart alec in a skirt try to get the better of me'," she claimed.

From BBC

I spoke up confidently in class, until a group of boys had enough of the ‘smart alec Paki’ and roughed me up a few times.

From Nature

He proved so skillful at blending “the apparently antagonistic roles of wiseacre and smart alec,” as he put it, that he was soon invited to appear on television himself.

He said that is was difficult to see her actions as anything but "smart Alec behaviour".

From BBC

“Not smart,” Alec called out in a harsh whisper.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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