smarty-pants

Example Sentences

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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

A bunch of law school graduates, smarty-pants and East Coast elites.

From Washington Post

But try as it might — and oh how it tries, mightily — to be a “meta-slasher whodunit,” as one of the high school crews puts it, this “Scream” feels less like a movie than a podcast about a movie, one hosted by a claque of irritating, smarty-pants commentators who don’t know when to shut up.

From Washington Post

It’s a smarty-pants show, but it’s provocative rather than explosive, and these days, that’s a rare and wonderful feat.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s always been a tension in his comedy between an ironic, smarty-pants cleverness and an often melodramatic point of view.

From New York Times