Thesaurus.com
Dictionary.com
Definitions

smarty

[smahr-tee] / ˈsmɑr ti /
NOUN
smart aleck
Synonyms


Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

See Examples For:

His accent is Georgian, and he still says “nucular,” despite years of ridicule from all those Northern smarty pants.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 7, 2023

The slime splashed on the son who had been seen as a clean-as-a-whistle smarty pants.

From New York Times ● Oct. 10, 2020

Additionally, after reading this recipe for poop emoji-shaped Peeps, my response is, "Well, good luck with that, smarty!"

From The Verge ● Mar. 22, 2016

So we've asked our crack culture team to pick what you need to experience to be the well-rounded, culturally fluent smarty you want to be, and ordered them by importance.

From Salon ● Jul. 4, 2011

You don’t have to be so smarty when you talk to me.

From "The Bluest Eye" by Toni Morrison

Ms Nicklas, who works in north Wales, said before her surgery she was "taking laxatives like they were smarties" but "still struggling to go to the toilet".

From BBC ● May 11, 2025

Here’s how it works: Said music smarties sent us lists of their top 10 Washington albums of 2021, ranked or unranked.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 22, 2021

There are those, like the smarties over at FiveThirtyEight and elsewhere who have tried to control for the variables you describe between elections or sporting events.

From Fox News ● Aug. 20, 2020

“Some Eastern smarties called ours a sewer socialism,” Seidel wrote:

From New York Times ● Oct. 19, 2019

Mother, you can just make those smarties come rip that stitching out!”

From Chicken Little Jane on the Big John by Lily Munsell Ritchie




Vocabulary.com logo
by dictionary.com

Look it up. Learn it forever.

Remember new words for good with VocabTrainer. Expand your vocabulary effortlessly with personalized learning tools that adapt to your goals.

Take me to Vocabulary.com