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know-all

NOUN
  1. someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others

How To Use know-all In A Sentence

  • All the musicians looked up to Frank as being the Leonard Bernstein of rock – the know-all. Alice Cooper and Noel Fielding talk rock'n'roll, drink, drugs and golf
  • He is a know-all with no sports qualifications.
  • Governments should stop soliciting the opinions of these unrepresentative know-alls, for the chances are they actually know even less than the average politician.
  • And seeing that I'm such a smart ass know-all, why don't I run for a seat myself and see if I can do any better?
  • Ask yourself who is the worst person you've had to watch sport with, and they will quite naturally align into one of two types: the know-nothing and the know-all. Pain of watching sport that I will never die happy | Emma John
  • Either the Kiwis wipe the floor with us and the commentators gloat ‘told-you’, or we'll win and hopefully shut up the whining, carping know-alls - for a week at least
  • He told the conference journalists are often ‘disconnected snobs and pompous know-alls who let the concerns of real people drop off the radar.’
  • Constructive criticism people, not pompous know-all attitude. The Tail Section » Your Voice: Why ‘Lost’ is the Greatest Story Ever Told
  • It ought to be easy to argue that egalitarian social goals are best pursued by crushing bureaucracy, by taking power away from know-all Islington lawyers and restoring control of people's working lives to them.
  • When the policy is released, it should be exposed in detail, rather it being automatically put-down by some know-all columnist.
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