smarty
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The slime splashed on the son who had been seen as a clean-as-a-whistle smarty pants.
From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2020
The film stars Janelle Monáe in overlapping roles as a 21st-century professional smarty named Veronica and an enslaved woman named Eden who is forced into labor on a cotton plantation.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 18, 2020
Additionally, after reading this recipe for poop emoji-shaped Peeps, my response is, "Well, good luck with that, smarty!"
From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2016
So we've asked our crack culture team to pick what you need to experience to be the well-rounded, culturally fluent smarty you want to be, and ordered them by importance.
From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011
A couple of tough boys tried to be smarty and kept on asking her name over and over.
From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers
Ms Nicklas, who works in north Wales, said before her surgery she was "taking laxatives like they were smarties" but "still struggling to go to the toilet".
From BBC ● May 11, 2025
Here’s how it works: Said music smarties sent us lists of their top 10 Washington albums of 2021, ranked or unranked.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021
There are those, like the smarties over at FiveThirtyEight and elsewhere who have tried to control for the variables you describe between elections or sporting events.
From Fox News ● Aug. 20, 2020
Subscribers to our weekly midterms newsletter, the Hot Seats, are smarties who know about all the interesting races before their primary results make headlines.
From Slate ● Sep. 7, 2018
They were all a lot of smarties anyway and he hated the whole stew of 'em!
From Ramsey Milholland by Tarkington, Booth
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