smart-alec

• “As luck would have it, in among the predictable deluge of smart-alec responses pertaining to Glasgow rivals Celtic and Rangers were some genuinely intriguing responses.”

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• “There were smart-alec animals, girls in their underwear, bloody fights, talky conspiracies, and always, too much time spent waiting for the viewer to load.”

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• “Do you intend to market your books to smart-alec high school students?”

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• “Grow up people – act like an adult instead of a smart-alec dweeb.”

  Obama camp: Clinton not looking for a deal

• “I saw some smart-alec posting an argument about a nursing mother not having time to be VP.”

  Apollo's Daughter :: Sarah Palin

• “And never forget, more Bushes wait in the wings: Jeb (always the family favorite), pompous George P., smart-alec young Pierce and a raft of other entitled trust-fund brats. —”

  The Political Revival of George Herbert Walker Bush - The Caucus Blog - NYTimes.com

• “He came across as a smart-alec snarky intellectual with that comment.”

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• “What kicked it into gear was, I simply typed my smart-alec ending, got up to go downstairs to empty the dryer it had buzzed while I was pondering and WHAM!”

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• “Finch, a cynical, sad man reminiscent of Raymond Chandler´s Philip Marlowe but imagine a Marlowe aged beyond his years, too exhausted to be a smart-alec, has himself his share of skeletons in the closet, and, in the space of a few days, must fend off attackers of all kinds and solve this nagging mystery.”

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• “Your sidekicks include the unfeasibly muderous assassin droid HK-47, the smart-alec street girl Mission, the disgraced wookie Zaalbar, the brutal Mandalorian warrior Canderous and several more, all superbly characterised and voice-acted.”

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