If you intensify an adjective by appending -ass, then

[Devsman]

Why isn't "smartass" a compliment?

[Q-T_3.14.exe]

Assass?

[Complexity]

It is on opposite day :)

[potato]

it is a compliment

[Acetyl]

It's just inverted doublespeak to pollute the mind. Same way they got everyone saying "wicked" or "sick" to mean "good. Now we're at a point where "sick ass" is a glowing endorsement, the coolest. "Dude" originally was a sort of insult as well.

[BlackBloodGhost]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Devsman:

Why isn't "smartass" a compliment?

For the same reason as "jackass"

[Slim]

Better to be a smartass than a dumbass.

[That Fish Guy]

It's all in how you receive it, it also helps when you receive it well multiple times from the same person, that really pisses their dumbasses off.

[Phirestar]

“Why’d you get that same bucket ass car?”

- CJ, GTA: San Andreas, 2004

[DarkCrystalMethod]

Wasn't ye-ye an adjective used in GTA?

[Phirestar]

Początkowo opublikowane przez DarkCrystalMethod:

Wasn't ye-ye an adjective used in GTA?

The iconic meme.

https://youtu.be/AKfy8vIrqFc?si=-R2WVYqZySNOZgUO

[Masque]

Początkowo opublikowane przez Phirestar:

“Why’d you get that same bucket ass car?”

- CJ, GTA: San Andreas, 2004

Maybe if you got rid of that old yee yee ass haircut, you'd get some Bs on yo D ."

- Lamar, GTA V

[THE VERY REVEREND MISTER BONK]

ASSMAN