smart-alecky
- a word derived from smart aleck.
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
Apart from the cheeky Peter, toward whose smart-alecky, riffy chatter the film is clearly weighted, there’s a genuine sweetness and camaraderie among most of the animals.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 8, 2018
The tone of Slate in those days was smart—and often smart-alecky.
From Slate ● Sep. 30, 2016
But they were a little too smart-alecky for my taste.
From "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" by Maya Angelou
