Thesaurus / smart-alecky
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synonyms for smart-alecky
- 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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How to use smart-alecky in a sentence
During the first week, not a day passed without smart skirmishes.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXXIX. JANUARY, 1844. VOL. LV.VARIOUSThen summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.
THE RED YEARLOUIS TRACYWho could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!
GALLIPOLI DIARY, VOLUME IIAN HAMILTONChristopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLIt was there that he longed to retire—to a dainty little hotel of his own with a smart clientèle.
THE JOYOUS ADVENTURES OF ARISTIDE PUJOLWILLIAM J. LOCKEThe Portuguese frigate Cine captured by the Algerines, after a smart action.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLIt was one of those smart little six-room villas of which so many have been put up in the London suburbs of late.
UNCANNY TALESVARIOUSIt had improved some since we first saw it, and was under what the natives called right smart cultivation for such a place.
THE CROMPTONSMARY J. HOLMESIf we hustle right smart we can get a pen done 'fore dark, let alone gettin' them cattle into a shed.
DOROTHY AT SKYRIEEVELYN RAYMONDAfter a smart administration of the strappado, he proceeded to examine the contents of his pinafore, which was bundled round him.
THE BOOK OF ANECDOTES AND BUDGET OF FUN;VARIOUSWORDS RELATED TO SMART-ALECKY
- arrogant
- big
- big-headed
- bombastic
- cocky
- conceited
- crowing
- egotistic
- egotistical
- exultant
- full of hot air
- highfalutin
- hot stuff
- know-it-all
- loudmouth
- on ego trip
- pompous
- pretentious
- puffed-up
- self-aggrandizing
- self-applauding
- smart-alecky
- snooty
- strutting
- stuck-up
- swaggering
- swanky
- swollen-headed
- too big for one's britches
- vainglorious
- vaunting
- windbag
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.