Words similar to smart-alecky

Example sentences for: smart-alecky

How can you use “smart-alecky” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

In a smart-alecky kind of way, I said, quoting Heraclitus, "You can't step in the same river twice."
Chatterbox replied that he could easily picture Mossberg (with whom Chatterbox formerly worked at the Journal 's Washington bureau) as a smart-alecky 9-year-old but that he doubted many other members of Mossberg's cohort were similarly precocious.
I replied, smart-alecky, that you can't step in the same river twice.