smartassery

noun

smartassery

noun

Etymology From smartass + -ery.

1

Informal The behaviour of a smartass.

'Is that the best you can do with all your big-talk smartassery? Aspirin?' Harold stuffed his hands into his pockets and looked at her miserably, accepting the rebuke.1978, Stephen King, The Stand:

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