smarty-pants
Example Sentences
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Green’s characters are sweet, hyperverbal smarty-pants; they memorize poetry and say things like “I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2018
But at the root of Jamison’s own grandiosity is not smarty-pants pretension; it’s a craving for emotional intensity that takes the form of an infatuation with pain.
From Slate • Apr. 3, 2018
Einstein, always the smarty-pants, outdid them both: “No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017
The book is “half-tell-all memoir, half-self-help manual,” all delivered in McHale’s signature, smarty-pants style.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 21, 2016
When he saw me laughing at him, he was like, “Okay, smarty-pants, if you can do it better then show me.”
From "Courage to Soar" by Simone Biles
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
