smart ass
noun
a wise guy; know-it-all.
smartass
-
a variation of
smart ass.
Example Sentences
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“I trip over my words and nothing good comes out. It’s fun listening to guys that are almost like a smartass … stuff that comes out naturally.”
From Washington Times ● Oct. 10, 2023
Part of that is Novak's script which is as smart as it is smartass.
From Salon ● Jul. 29, 2022
Strong, best known as the feckless media heir of Succession, plays Jerry Rubin as a perpetually half-stoned flower child, a naïve Harpo to Hoffman’s smartass Groucho.
From Slate ● Oct. 14, 2020
Mr. Joel identifies as a smartass: “I rub people the wrong way, with that stupid Long Island chip on my shoulder.”
From New York Times ● Jul. 25, 2018
Even my brother, who had a smartass remark for everything, was struck dumb.
From "We Are the Ants" by Shaun David Hutchinson
