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smarty

[smahr-tee] / ˈsmɑr ti /
NOUN
smart aleck
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Velma, the bespectacled, orange-turtleneck-wearing smarty of the Scooby-Doo gang, is apparently queer, at least in the new, direct-to-digital and DVD film "Trick or Treat Scooby-Doo!"

From Salon Oct. 11, 2022

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

When she complained that the menu was too bland, her brother said, “You think you’re so smart? Well, go fix it, smarty pants,” as she wrote in her memoir.

From Washington Post Jun. 2, 2018

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

Whenever Marly told anything about her school during those first weeks, Joe acted quite superior and smarty.

From "Miracles on Maple Hill" by Virginia Sorensen

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

Subscribers to our weekly midterms newsletter, the Hot Seats, are smarties who know about all the interesting races before their primary results make headlines.

From Slate Sep. 7, 2018

Now, Mr. Chicken, I'm settin' deze heah lines fur crawfish, an' ef you smarties come a-foolin' round 'em, I gwine punish you 'cordin' ter de law.

From Solomon Crow's Christmas Pockets and Other Tales by Ruth McEnery Stuart




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