smart-alecky

That sounds smart-alecky, but trust me, there’s nothing funny about being me right now.

Spielberg considers it "a closed story," which means no tortured sequels, no painful animated spin-off where the kids and the alien botanist, I don't know, solve mysteries and thwart the hapless feds, no reboot starring a smart-alecky kid with cool hair.

Scobell makes for a funhouse-mirror reflection of Reynolds, a smart-alecky and asthmatic bullying victim who is a sort of a Mini-Me version of the acerbic, grown-up Adam: somewhere between a PG-13 version of Deadpool and Reynolds’s glibly sardonic art-thief character in “Red Notice.”

Jim and I didn’t get along while I was growing up—he was an alcoholic, and I was a smart-alecky kid, hurt he had “taken my mom away”—and I graduated school early just to get out of their house.

She said in a later Times interview that she felt the original Josephine character was "too smart-alecky, too brash," but she thought "any lady who was going to become a plumber" would take pride in her work and care about her customers.