variants
or smartie
as in wiseass
a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying way
think so, smarty? Well, you're wrong, and I can prove it!
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Recent Examples of smarty
East High's resident smarty-pants, Monique Coleman will be returning in her role as the brilliant Taylor McKessie.
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Amanda Taylor,
Peoplemag,
25 Sep. 2022
The film stars Janelle Monáe in overlapping roles as a 21st-century professional smarty named Veronica and an enslaved woman named Eden who is forced into labor on a cotton plantation.
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Washington Post,
18 Sep. 2020
Despite this, the story of still feels as immediate as ever, in large part because of the performances of Daisy Edgar-Jones as the prickly smarty-pants Marianne Sheridan and Paul Mescal as the popular, eager-to-please Connell Waldron.
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Keely Weiss,
Harper's BAZAAR,
29 Apr. 2020
People replied with funny comments, mean comments, smarty-pants memes, etc.
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Sean Clancy,
Arkansas Online,
24 Nov. 2019
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Amanda Taylor,
Peoplemag,
25 Sep. 2022
The film stars Janelle Monáe in overlapping roles as a 21st-century professional smarty named Veronica and an enslaved woman named Eden who is forced into labor on a cotton plantation.
—
Washington Post,
18 Sep. 2020
Despite this, the story of still feels as immediate as ever, in large part because of the performances of Daisy Edgar-Jones as the prickly smarty-pants Marianne Sheridan and Paul Mescal as the popular, eager-to-please Connell Waldron.
—
Keely Weiss,
Harper's BAZAAR,
29 Apr. 2020
People replied with funny comments, mean comments, smarty-pants memes, etc.
—
Sean Clancy,
Arkansas Online,
24 Nov. 2019
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smarty
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As disarming as Rockwell is with his wry balance of doofus, savant and wiseass, and as capable as Verbinski is at keeping the brushes with death coming at a sustained pace, the movie feels most original in its flashbacks.
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But since the emergence of a kinder, gentler Deadpool in the wiseass character’s first stand-alone movie, Wade has carried on a long-distance flirtation with Wolverine.
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The 40-year-old singer Ryan Davis, a cowboy wiseacre with a drum machine and the patience for 11-minute anthems, riffs merrily on such existential mysteries.
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Similarly, the Pink Ladies, a popular clique headed by Rizzo (Stockard Channing), deliver their wiseacre lines with a fair dose of irony.
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Developed by Robbins specifically for Pompeo, Chicks follows Chickie (Pompeo) and Doreen, two estranged half-sisters who are both struggling to get by when their wise guy dad unexpectedly kicks the bucket.
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Here’s a look at what each team in the NFC North has done in free agency, and how the wise guys in Las Vegas currently rank the division.
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This fuzzy, snout-nosed, smart aleck extraterrestrial whose name was Gordon Shumway crashed in the suburban garage of the Tanner family in California after escaping from the doomed planet of Melmac, which was destroyed by nuclear war.
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Newton scored and so did backcourt mate Cam Spencer, that different style of smart aleck, who had 20.
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“Smarty.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smarty. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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