SMART-MOUTHED Synonyms: 89 Similar and Opposite Words

smart-mouthed

adjective

ˈsmärt-ˌmau̇tht

Definition of smart-mouthed

as in sarcastic

marked by the use of wit that is intended to cause hurt feelings your smart-mouthed remarks aren't at all helping the situation

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Recent Examples of smart-mouthed The smart-mouthed superhero meets his match in Pierre’s John Stewart, a man introduced to him as a new recruit and a hopeful for the ring. — Brenton Blanchet, PEOPLE, 17 Aug. 2026 Zuloaga’s smart-mouthed troop functions as a lively microcosm of this world. — Carolina A. Miranda, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2026 Feimster plays the smart-mouthed Roo, a CIA colleague of Luke's. — Randall Colburn, EW.com, 12 June 2025 Ken Osmond as Eddie Haskell In the show, Ken Osmond played Eddie Haskell — the smart-mouthed kid who was best friends with Wally. — Meredith Wilshere, People.com, 7 June 2025 There is Jake, the perma-grinning, smart-mouthed group leader. — Sophie Monks Kaufman, IndieWire, 16 May 2025

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Starring Andrew Scott as British actor Ian Charleson, who throws himself into playing Hamlet while succumbing to AIDS, the film’s ensemble cast features Dolan as the sarcastic receptionist at the National Theatre in London.

— Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 10 Sep. 2026
The sarcastic Chandler Bing (Matthew Perry) and affable actor Joey Tribbiani (Matt LeBlanc) are among her favorite characters.

— Mack DeGeurin, Popular Science, 9 Sep. 2026

Definition of sarcastic

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According to The Jerusalem Post, Malkovich is scheduled to return to Tel Aviv for the satirical theatrical-musical production on April 13 at the Charles Bronfman Auditorium.

— Lexi Carson, HollywoodReporter, 5 Sep. 2026
Critics have long speculated that his depiction was satirical—that the first utopian literary work was, at least in part, dystopian.

— Boris Kachka, The Atlantic, 4 Sep. 2026

Definition of satiric

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There are plenty of Ostalgie museums in today’s united Germany, furnished with memorabilia of the German Democratic Republic, from twigs of barbed wire to Trabant gearboxes.

— Isaac Chotiner, New Yorker, 3 Sep. 2026
Across the lot in an unused patch of pavement, pops of bright orange and yellow reach skyward toward the imposing barbed wire that’s laced atop metal security bars.

— Leigh-Ann Jackson, Los Angeles Times, 2 Sep. 2026

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