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

And when you insult him with a smart-alecky answer about buying cows, you are sending up a red flag that you are hiding something.

From New York Times • Oct. 16, 2014

“I don’t know if I want to,” I say with a smart-alecky grin.

From "The Running Dream" by Wendelin Van Draanen