smarts

Yet seriously there cannot be any doubt about Ted Cruz's "smarts."

Possibly there was considerable of irony in it too, the kind that smarts with all lads.

Zu schwer bezahlt man oft ein leicht Versehn—One often smarts pretty sharply for a slight mistake.

Her eye smarts or itches; and without thinking, she rubs it with a finger covered with the Magical Ointment.

I hoped he'd had the smarts to wipe his fingerprints off the quarter, keep his hood up, and leave all his arphids at home.

Occasionally, I tried to take the long-hoarded sting out of these compunctious smarts by attending divine service in the open air.