smarty-pants
Example Sentences
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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 • Nov. 18, 2021
Cole, a world-class smarty-pants, and Pike, an implacable and scary ex-Marine, make a terrific pair.
From Seattle Times • Jul. 31, 2019
Green’s characters are sweet, hyperverbal smarty-pants; they memorize poetry and say things like “I just want to do something that matters. Or be something that matters. I just want to matter.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 30, 2018
Einstein, always the smarty-pants, outdid them both: “No worthy problem is ever solved in the plane of its original conception.”
From The Guardian • Mar. 4, 2017
Phony rules, which proliferate like urban legends and are just as hard to eradicate, are responsible for vast amounts of ham-fisted copyediting and smarty-pants one-upmanship.
From "The Sense of Style" by Steven Pinker
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
