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smarty-pants
noun as in smart aleck
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Everyone is corrupt, these smarty-pants nod, while touching each other a bit more than they should.
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In other words: Hey, all you smarty-pants liberals — you’re the real bigots here!
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Trump makes them feel they can stick it to those smarty-pants liberals who they imagine are laughing at them, and all without having to put in the work of learning stuff and knowing things.
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I folded my hands together on top of my desk and nodded toward my bedroom door, hoping Miss Smarty-Pants could take a hint.
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Those smarty-pants Yippies understood that.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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