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smart-aleckadjective making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacreda talk show host who's known for his quick quips and smart-aleck observations on current events cute, facetious, flip, flippant, pert, smart, smart-alecky, smart-ass, smart-assed, smarty-pants, wise, wiseass flighty, frivolouscheeky, cocky, fresh, impertinent, impish, impudent, mischievous, playful, roguish, sassy, saucy, waggishdisrespectful, rudebreezy, casual, glib, inappropriate, thoughtless earnest, sincere grave, serious, sober, solemn, somber(or sombre) marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelingsa smart-aleck reply that was met with a slap in the face acerb, acerbic, acid, acidic, acidulous, acrid, barbed, biting, caustic, corrosive, cutting, mordant, pungent, sarcastic, sardonic, satiric(or satirical), scalding, scathing, sharp, smart-alecky, smart-mouthed, snarky, tart brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky(also spikey), tartishincisive, keen, poignant, trenchantcynical, dry, ironic(also ironical), wryfacetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheekacrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolicharsh, rough, severe, stringentabrupt, blunt, brusque(also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, tersebackhanded, insincere amusing, droll, merry, playful, sportive, waggishgentle, mildblandgood-humored, good-natureddiplomatic, polite, smooth, suave, urbaneaffable, cordial, genial, gracious, hospitable, sociable a person who likes to show off in a clever but annoying waysome smart aleck in the audience kept shouting clever insults at the nervous speaker in 1865 |