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

Q. Stuck in the middle: My father has always been a smart aleck who loves practical jokes and discreetly needling people.

From Slate • Jul. 6, 2021

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

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 21, 2019

As Stengel later recalled: “You ought to have seen his face when he came out and saw that. Of course, he knew then that I was a big smart aleck, the same as himself.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 7, 2017

Then I heard him whisper something under his breath, and it had just the tone of a first-class smart aleck.

From "The Pigman" by Paul Zindel