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a. That is characteristic of a smart aleck alt. That is characteristic of a smart aleck
Usage examples of "smart-aleck".
There was a great deal wrong with the Rustic Slicker, and he, Bayard Lodge, knew the Rustic Slicker as he knew no other manknew the blood and guts and brains of him, knew his thoughts and dreams and his hidden yearnings, his clodhopperish conceit, his smart-aleck snicker, the burning inferiority complex that drove him to social exhibitionism.
As usual, some joker on the copydesk had written a smart-aleck headline for it.
He tried to recall diving in deep water, the deep water of the Stenos, where the big-mouthed, smart-aleck, shore-hugging Tursiops were rare as dugongs.
Haoke was another Tursiops smart-aleck, like Creideiki and that stuck up little midshipfin, Akki.
I want you to throw away whatever smart-aleck closing line you've got prepared, and just say these words: say, 'I'm going to be a good boy, sir,' and then get the hell out of here.