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
- insolent
- malapert
- nervy
- off-base
- overbold
- overconfident
- pert
- presuming
- presumptuous
- procacious
- pushy
- rude
- sassy
- saucy
- smart
- unabashed
- unblushing
- wise
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Like as not Miss Connie'll be marryin' some smart-alecky, good-fer-nothin' fellow, then she'll be settled.
I busted a big hole in her right whar there was a smart-alecky Yankee colonel sailin' acrost on a horse.
It is not "smart-alecky" at all, but has, rather, the sound of something genuinely felt.
RELATED WORDS AND SYNONYMS FOR SMART-ALECKY
boastful
adjectivebragging- arrogant
- big
- big-headed
- bombastic
- cocky
- conceited
- crowing
- egotistic
- egotistical
- exultant
- full of hot air
- hifalutin
- 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
bold
adjectivebrazen, insolentbrazen
adjectivebrash, unashamedconceited
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