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wise-ass
noun
Alternative spelling of wiseass
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"You're a wise-ass, pard.
Kirk is a wise-ass and a troublemaker.
"What, are you being a wise-ass?" Tortorella replied.
Gentlemen!" "Animal House" made wise-ass hedonism seem political; "Caddyshack" made it seem mandatory.
"I knew a wise-ass like you in med school," he said.
Out from Wednesday Diary Of A Wimpy Kid Confessions of a schoolboy wise-ass.
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In among his team of hard-nuts, wise-asses, muggers, brawlers and flawed geniuses, Hussey, sweetly, was the self-styled Mr Cricket, that rarest of things in pro sport – an enthusiast.
— Meghan McCain, referring to recent proposals from, respectively, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo and New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg "Every now and again, a politician comes along who is just truly terrible and really deserving of more scorn than even we can dole out in our nightly twenty-one-minute, thirty-second wise-ass-athon".
But of course by the time virtualization became a thing there were the wise asses who basically told Larry Ellison to go to hell.
We're teaching children that being a wise ass is cute; they learn to be tough, or be eaten alive.
One officer even refers to the boy as a "mut," and a "wise ass," and threatens to break the boy's arm.
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