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What does smart-alecky mean?

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Adjective
  1. Having the quality of a smart-aleck; rude, disrespectful.
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The sneering desperation in his voice is familiar, a relic of smart-alecky emo.
Born in 1972, he seems to me like a smart-alecky adolescent who thinks youth and parental praise will last forever.
And Mr. Morris, now with long dreadlocks, small and wary, smart-alecky and comical, kept control.
See, we old fogies can be just as smart-alecky as the young whippersnappers!
With patients, he displays none of Placebo Journal's smart-alecky tone.
Still, better to get softheaded in Big Sur than smart-alecky in the Mary McCarthy set.

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