smart set
Example Sentences
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She added that the department has "made a smart set of decisions but it is part of an overall package".
From BBC • Oct. 28, 2025
But this pathetic desire to be seen as part of the "smart" set makes it pretty easy to scam the elite right.
From Salon • Aug. 8, 2023
The larger-than-life 70-year-old is an Oxford graduate, was part of London's smart set in the late 1970s and later led cricket-mad Pakistan to victory in the 1992 World Cup.
From Reuters • May 22, 2023
As time went on, though, “Abie’s Irish Rose” lived long enough to generate what Schildcrout called “a begrudging respect” for the play among the smart set.
From New York Times • May 11, 2022
Not the so-called smart set, you understand; but the real ruling set—the leading soldiers, the leading diplomats.
From Men, Women and Guns by McNeile, H. C. (Herman Cyril)
