Thesaurus / smart-ass

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How to use smart-ass in a sentence

During the first week, not a day passed without smart skirmishes.

Then summoning a smart young jemadar with whom he had talked a good deal during the journey, he asked him to read the chit.

The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib: but Israel hath not known me, and my people hath not understood.

Who could have believed that only a fortnight ago these same figures were clean as new pins; smart and well-liking!

Christopher Smart, an English poet and miscellaneous writer, died; known by a popular translation of Horace.

It was there that he longed to retire—to a dainty little hotel of his own with a smart clientèle.

The Portuguese frigate Cine captured by the Algerines, after a smart action.

And thy oxen, and the ass colts that till the ground, shall eat mingled provender as it was winnowed in the floor.

Blessed are ye that sow upon all waters, sending thither the foot of the ox and the ass.

It was one of those smart little six-room villas of which so many have been put up in the London suburbs of late.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985