NOUN
- someone who thinks he knows everything and refuses to accept advice or information from others
How To Use know-it-all In A Sentence
- Dad was never a know-it-all, he just wanted me to improve my game. Times, Sunday Times
- His reputation as an autocratic know-it-all goes before him. The Sun
- Every time you turn on the television, some Republican is ranting like the kind of barstool know-it-all who gives booze a bad name. Salon
- Try it out on the office know-it-all, or the smarty-pants next door.
- You also tend to take a know-it-all attitude and to be domineering, which others feel and resent.
- I agree john q public has no idea whats going on at the meetings. prime examples are all of these blogs. only one side or part of the story is presented. also most people don't know about them and why it is even important for them to attend. and by the time they get home from their mind nubbing jobs, they don't want to go to a meeting and listne to some blowhard who reminds them to much of their idiot boss or know-it-all father-in-law. Fair Use
- There are so many suave transcontinental know-it-alls out there that this honest, self deprecating travelogue is more refreshing than a 'merican soda cup full of ICE. Observations on D-Land: I Steal a Euro, and Meet a Cool Cop
- At times she's a gangling, anti-social adolescent, and at others a snobbish know-it-all, but she's always riveting.
- I am fascinated by record shops - full of know-it-all shop assistants in teeshirt uniforms, and musos deeply into their thing.
- Are we blood-hungry Democrats eager to vanquish our enemies and hear the lamentations of their women, or are we a bunch of soft-middled hipster know-it-alls who listen to This American Life and sip herb tea? Obama Rips Rudy: "Has Taken Politics Of Fear To New Low
