smart aleck

Example Sentences

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Some sued, some sent smart aleck responses and some refused to answer the email.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2025

In real life, however, Mr. Jaffee was the opposite of a smart aleck: a genteel, unassuming man whose in-person humor was delivered with a wink, not a cudgel.

From New York Times • Apr. 10, 2023

OK, a smart aleck would say that’s a low bar.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2019

I was never a troublemaker, but I was always a smart aleck.

From Slate • Feb. 21, 2018

As I’ve told you, what I say is not what I feel, which is why I have a reputation for being boy-crazy as well as a flirt, a smart aleck and a reader of romances.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank