smart mouth
Smart-mouthed kids are quick to remind teachers that their parents can sue them.
A smart-mouthed teenager is sentenced to prison in this witty serial.
I like smart-mouthed women who fight with the men they love.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases Rude and cheeky
backchat
cheekily
cheekiness
cheeky
churlishly
churlishness
coarse-grained
fruity
gall
indelicate
obnoxiously
obnoxiousness
offensively
offensiveness
pertly
sass
scatological
unceremonious
unpleasant
unprintable
Examples of smart-mouthed
smart-mouthed
She is smart and
smart-
mouthed; a risk-taker who feels she has something to prove.
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She portrays a fiery, tough,
smart-
mouthed troublemaker.
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