smart-alecky

Example Sentences

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“I’ve said repeatedly that his answers to the questions and I watched him, were smart-alecky, untruthful, and misleading,” Fox News reporters cited him saying.

From Salon • May 9, 2019

“I guess I was in a smart-alecky mood that day.”

From Slate • Feb. 14, 2019

Which is a smart-alecky way of noting that all drafts are pretty equally critical at the time they are held, even if their impact on the team may turn out vastly different.

From Seattle Times • Apr. 25, 2018

Apart from the cheeky Peter, toward whose smart-alecky, riffy chatter the film is clearly weighted, there’s a genuine sweetness and camaraderie among most of the animals.

From Washington Post • Feb. 8, 2018

“Um . . . okay,” she said, apparently too surprised to think of a smart-alecky comeback.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix