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- noun slang One who is particularly
insolent , who tends to makesnide remarks or jokes. - adjective slang Related to or characteristic of a smartass.
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Examples
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Being called a smartass is an insult. take it as a compliment.
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And yes, we're in smartass, underground, sophomoric, "ha-ha, Mickey Mouse has a penis" territory, but there's a lot more to the story (and the comics themselves) than that.
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Unless I’m with Sammy, and then I am “nauseated,” because he likes to play at what he calls a pedagogue and I call a smartass.
Closing Time Joseph Heller 1994
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Which would be preferable: a Congress full of inanities toeing the party line, or a vice-president who calls a smartass a smartass?
Joe Biden, the vice-president who keeps putting his foot in it 2010
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Being a maverick aka smartass, he decided out do them.
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many times removed as someone who might be referred to as a smartass youngster who simply doesn't appreciate the fact that he lives in America ! britt in wisconsin
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Salon's Alex Pareene takes aim at a different blogger -- one who jumped on Joe Biden calling the custard guy a "smartass":
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Trent Reznor is a self-described "smartass" on the Internet.
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By I finally live up to the sobriquet 'smartass' . . . « Frontier Former Editor on May 4, 2007 at 1:07 am
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There is no better way to describe you than as a "smartass", I'm afraid.
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