Sentence examples for Know-it-all from inspiring English sources

The word "know-it-all" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to refer to someone who acts like they know everything or pretend to know more than they actually do. Example sentence: She's such a know-it-all; she always has to be right.

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Know-it-all

noun

Someone who obnoxiously claims to be knowledgeable on a subject.

  • We had it all figured out, but this know-it-all marched in with "the correct way of solving it", leaving our experiment in shambles.

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EDWARD SNOWDEN: Know-it-all.

Being a know-it-all.

BRIAN WILLIAMS: Know-it-all?

He is not a know-it-all.

Except for the know-it-all.

Anyone who says they know it all is, well, a know-it-all.

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Do we know it all in detail?

I don't know it all.

I don't have to know it all.

They know it all too well.

I know: it all sounds unbelievable.

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