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Smart-alecky

adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Having the quality of a smart aleck; rude, disrespectful.

    "The Katzenjammer Kids were fun because they made the adults look stupid. But they were a little too smart-alecky for my taste."

Etymology

From smart aleck + -y.

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