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smartarse

/ ˈsmɑːtˌɑːs /

noun

  1. derogatory.
    1. a clever person, esp one who parades his knowledge offensively
    2. ( as modifier )

      smartarse guidebooks

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Derived Forms

  • ˈsmartˌarsed, adjective
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Example Sentences

I get my dinner paid for and then get paid to write smartarse things about it.

It was never my plan, because what fool would nurture an ambition to have their dinner paid for and then be paid to write smartarse things about it?

The “Muh muh muh my Sharona” moment is the bounciest titbit in Ben Stiller’s smartarse directorial debut, a Generation X bildungsroman in which recent college graduates in a job-poor market try to find themselves and “be something by the age of 23”.

Teachers at my school, for being such a smartarse.

To be funny is to be a smartarse, to be clever, quick and able to take down the bully in the playground or the millionaire in the cabinet.

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