smarty-pants

Example Sentences

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Those who are traditional allies should sit down, talk to each other, and arrive at a minimum platform which will then allow the big smarty-pants and big shots in the field of AI and everything that goes with it—software and hardware included—to actually deploy and operate in a continent like Europe.

From The Wall Street Journal

“Oh, she’s a smarty-pants, now, isn’t she?”

From Literature

I folded my hands together on top of my desk and nodded toward my bedroom door, hoping Miss Smarty-Pants could take a hint.

From Literature

Those smarty-pants Yippies understood that.

From Salon

Anger — fueled by the cruelty of politics, by the indignities of capitalism, by Costello’s somewhat creepy ideas about women — was no impediment to productivity as punk’s smarty-pants polemicist banged out the nearly five dozen songs found on his first four studio albums.

From Los Angeles Times