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smart-alecky
Synonyms and Antonyms of smart-alecky
1
making light of something usually regarded as serious or sacred
cute, facetious, flip, flippant, pert, smart, smart-aleck, smart-ass, smart-assed, smarty-pants, wise, wiseass
2
marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings
brisk, cross, sharp-tongued, sour, sourish, spiky (also spikey), tartish
incisive, keen, poignant, trenchant
cynical, dry, ironic (also ironical), wry
facetious, flippant, tongue-in-cheek
acrimonious, bitter, resentful, vitriolic
harsh, rough, severe, stringent
abrupt, blunt, brusque (also brusk), concise, crisp, curt, gruff, pithy, snippety, snippy, succinct, terse
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