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smart-mouthed

ADJECTIVE
sassy
Synonyms
WEAK
arrant audacious bold brassy brazen cheeky discourteous disrespectful flip flippant fresh insolent mouthy overbold rude saucy smart-alecky wise

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Quan continued this trend with "Loki," in which his smart-mouthed, tech-savvy character Ouroboros is "a variant of Data from 'The Goonies,'" according to his interview with Gold Derby.

From Salon • Feb. 7, 2025

Fictional Horowitz’s sidekick in the series is the smart-mouthed ex-Metropolitan Police detective Daniel Hawthorne.

From Washington Post • Nov. 29, 2022

Ortega now finds herself faced with another daunting task: to reimagine the deadpan, smart-mouthed Wednesday Addams as a teenager in “Wednesday,” Tim Burton’s upcoming horror comedy for Netflix.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2022

Dunham propels funny, smart-mouthed, conflicted female characters onto the big and small screens.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 2, 2014

Something about this situation got my inner smart-mouthed child going.

From "Drums, Girls, and Dangerous Pie" by Jordan Sonnenblick