smart-aleck
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The question comes: “Are you a sailor?” — prompting Popeye’s first smart-aleck response: “ ‘Ja think I’m a cowboy?”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
That may have been reflected later in his embrace of quarterback Billy Joe Hobert, described by Gastineau as “a smart-aleck country kid” and “riverboat gambler” but also an intense competitor who oozed confidence.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 18, 2021
This smart-aleck persona is something he’s trying on, and you just happen to the be the person he’s most comfortable being his most obnoxious self around.
From Slate ● Jan. 4, 2021
Joseph’s smart-aleck comedy, compulsively exposing the scared and needy boy behind the bully, wears thin in places.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 11, 2020
He’d always liked Baxter, liked the kid’s smart-aleck nature and who-cares attitude.To see such a thing done to him...
From "The Kill Order (Maze Runner, Book Four; Origin)" by James Dashner
I’m a kid that grew up in Hollywood, and I went to Baghdad wearing a Metallica shirt and I was a total smart aleck.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 17, 2025
Some sued, some sent smart aleck responses and some refused to answer the email.
From Salon ● Feb. 27, 2025
She is an outraged activist, a smart aleck, an angsty dreamer of a girl.
From New York Times ● Feb. 26, 2023
I was never a troublemaker, but I was always a smart aleck.
From Slate ● Feb. 21, 2018
I asked her if that was in the dress code, not to be a smart aleck but because I didn’t remember seeing cutoffs listed.
From "The First Rule of Punk" by Celia C. Pérez
