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- adjective Having the quality of a
smart-aleck ;rude ,disrespectful
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Examples
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It is initially confusing, and rather smart-alecky.
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I've often said over the last two seasons that I prefer the best of ABC's current comedy lineup to NBC's (and Community is easily my favorite NBC comedy, by the way), because ABC's are generally less smart-alecky, smug and (once again) ironic.
Ask Matt: Is Modern Family the Best? Plus: Killing, Fringe and More! 2011
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Carol Rosegg John Leguizamo His latest Broadway solo show, "Ghetto Klown," which opens Tuesday, shows that smart-alecky kid grown up, sort of, on the movie and TV sets of Hollywood.
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Max's breezy narrative is flip and hip, replete with smart-alecky jokes that would be believable for a fourteen-year-old if only the spelling weren't so good.
Archive 2009-05-01 2009
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In the orchestrations you hear vestiges of the smart-alecky sounds of the music Weill wrote for Brecht.
Howard Kissel: Knickerbocker Holiday Howard Kissel 2011
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Max's breezy narrative is flip and hip, replete with smart-alecky jokes that would be believable for a fourteen-year-old if only the spelling weren't so good.
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With all due smart-alecky respect, can you blame him for being in American Samoa in January? — steve
Dean Absent as Obama Introduces His Pick for D.N.C. Chairman - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com 2009
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-- I was going to open with something smart-alecky like "now I feel like taking a few deep, cleansing breaths," or maybe a comparison to one of those black-light posters from the '70s.
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I strongly suspect my classmates were exaggerating their answers to be smart-alecky.
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In the orchestrations you hear vestiges of the smart-alecky sounds of the music Weill wrote for Brecht.
Howard Kissel: Knickerbocker Holiday Howard Kissel 2011
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