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smart-alecky
adjective as in impudent
Weak matches
- arrant
- assuming
- assumptive
- audacious
- barefaced
- blatant
- bold
- boldfaced
- brash
- brassy
- brazen
- bumptious
- cheeky
- cocky
- contumelious
- cool
- familiar
- flip
- forward
- fresh
- immodest
- impertinent
- impudent
- insolent
- malapert
- nervy
- off-base
- overbold
- overconfident
- pert
- presuming
- presumptuous
- procacious
- pushy
- rude
- sassy
- saucy
- smart
- smart-ass
- unabashed
- unblushing
- wise
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Example Sentences
I busted a big hole in her right whar there was a smart-alecky Yankee colonel sailin' acrost on a horse.
Like as not Miss Connie'll be marryin' some smart-alecky, good-fer-nothin' fellow, then she'll be settled.
It is not "smart-alecky" at all, but has, rather, the sound of something genuinely felt.
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On this page you'll find 1094 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smart alecky, such as: brazen, cheeky, arrant, audacious, barefaced, and blatant.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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