How to Use smarty in a Sentence

smarty

noun

• Don't be such a smarty.
• She's a real smarty and does her job well.
• Pressing the right key moved the drum on, yielding sweets for smarty-pants.
  — The Economist, 22 July 2017
• Mervyn King, the governor of the Bank of England, said in the smarty-pants manner that economists are cherished for.
  — The Economist, 11 July 2019
• This is not to say that the pestilence lacks the Coens’ trademark comic ghastliness and smarty-pants zingers.
  — Peter Rainer, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 Oct. 2017
• Even my smarty-pants digital-native progeny can't quite get to the bottom of it.
  — Kristin Van Ogtrop, Time, 28 Sep. 2017
• Back in February, a bunch of smarty-pants academics gathered in Boston to brainstorm strategies to combat fake news.
  — Callum Borchers, Washington Post, 6 May 2017
• Is my genius toothbrush going to start communicating with my smarty-pants phone?
  — Lisa Scottoline, Philly.com, 26 Jan. 2018
• For all the smarty-pants pontificating, there’s a reason why nerd culture infrequently makes movies or TV shows in which our celluloid selves buy one-way tickets to the future.
  — Mary H. K. Choi, WIRED, 1 Nov. 2011
• Writing with spark and gravity, Gunderson adds to the deepening depiction of female smarty pants who advance the sciences.
  — Lisa Kennedy, The Know, 12 Apr. 2017
• Yet there are also points where the smarty-pants interpolations get in the way of the central questions in Rostand’s unabashedly romantic (if adolescent) view of honor and love.
  — Kerry Reid, chicagotribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Now, identifying yourself as a television smarty pants — er, connoisseur — has become a bit tougher.
  — Mary McNamara, latimes.com, 12 July 2019
• As those of us with Flavia-mania know from previous books, the plucky adolescent is terrifically entertaining — the world’s foremost brainiac/chemist/sleuth/busybody/smarty-pants.
  — Adam Woog, The Seattle Times, 26 Jan. 2018
• But what about sending out messages inviting contact with intelligent aliens rather than just listening for incoming missives from faraway smarty-pants or whatever clothing may be appropriate for their anatomy?
  — Steve Mirsky, Scientific American, 1 Jan. 2018

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