smarty
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His accent is Georgian, and he still says “nucular,” despite years of ridicule from all those Northern smarty pants.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023
Velma, the bespectacled, orange-turtleneck-wearing smarty of the Scooby-Doo gang, is apparently queer, at least in the new, direct-to-digital and DVD film "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!"
From Salon ● Oct. 11, 2022
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
Why don’t you write a column about that, smarty pants?
From New York Times ● Jul. 10, 2010
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
What happens is a version of what former philosophy students and debate-happy internet smarties will recognize as the Trolley Problem, a chestnut of hypothetical ethical disputation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
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
It went on to state that some smarties are not content with getting the regular bounty.
From The Boy Scouts in the Maine Woods The New Test for the Silver Fox Patrol by Herbert Carter
