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Sentence Examples There's nothing like a worm attack that spares Linux to bring out the smug superiority in Linux users. After he finishes something he imagines particularly clever, he ends up looking smug and haughty. It caused uproar at the time, but the wily Italian must be sitting back with a smug smile, puffing on that metaphorical cigar. I was smug and proud that I wasn't your average male hack comic, but I wasn't showing who I was. The holographic representation of his opponent looked smug as it calmly checkmated his king again. Prominent right-wing pundits like to portray the above interventions as woolly-headed meddling by decadent, smug millionaires. Swanberg plays an amusingly hatable character with a smug disregard for indie flicks. Oh, it's all right for him, from his smug look anyone can see that he is enjoying himself. Her world collapses when her firm forces her to take first chair defense in a murder case involving a smug yakuza who's obviously guilty. He winked at me and I wanted to knock out a few teeth in that smug smile he flashed at me. The Minister can sit there with a smug smile and a smug face, and he can shake his head all that he wants to. The prospect of wiping the smug smirk of Murdoch's mug is a delightful notion. We are smug and self-satisfied, most of us, and I include myself in that analysis of our situation. The column is an exercise in smug attitudinizing that makes clear its writer thinks slightly higher of himself than the evidence warrants. Well, I think it came out more like an extremely smug smirk, but same difference, right? On impulse, she leaned over and placed a chaste kiss on his cheek and was smug to see a slight tinge of red creep over his cheeks. Time and time again President Reagan went against what the smug smarties inside the beltway and on the TV tube said. I glanced down and Charlie, Zachery's black and white tomcat, was sitting beside his bowl, a smug and fairly self satisfied look on his face. We look back at the stiff-necked Victorians with a smug sense of superiority. But there are hard cases out there and most of us in our smug and complaining satisfaction simply don't know. Show More Sentences Naturally, they reserve the right to be smug and unimpressed, but still they'll come. In any case, after looking at his smug puss for an hour or so, I'm far more likely to pass on the son and vote for the parents. You can't coming across as a smug and superior school marm correcting a slow child if you want to succeed. However, his smug self-confidence took a battering when Tudor won the Rounders. You spend lots of time being snug and smug in the spa, then feel very self-righteous when you venture out into the cold. He looked smug and self-satisfied, possibly having forgotten his precarious position. There's the shrill nagging wife, the unbelievably smug former friend, the obnoxious bully and some tart in a negligee. It is always wise to guard against adopting a complacent or smug attitude in life as one ages. Behind all its smug hypocrisy and sickly sentimentality are the sinister outlines of the class war. The sight of those five smug and arrogant oil corporation CEOs was enough to turn one's stomach. It is the arrogant and totally unearned presumption of smug superiority that infuriated people. I have rarely heard such nonsense delivered with such a smug air of authority. Like Bridget, I tend not to want the relationships that the smug marrieds are in and I like to assume that my smug married friends are miserable. And beware of smug marrieds who make you feel bad and fearful if you're single and in your thirties. He folded his hands behind his back as he walked, a smug smile on his face, surveying the venders. Cooking our own meals added to a smug sense of self-sufficiency and general worthiness. There are a lot of smug haters out there who bag on my choice of a name, but I don't care about what they think. British MPs tend to feel smug that religion plays almost no role in our politics. If Eva is a cynical and superior Europhile, husband Franklin is smug and Republican, with a Rockwellian view of family life. Worse than this dippy nonsense is the smug hippie sanctimony Glastonbury attracts. Show More Sentences I feel a smug satisfaction in knowing I am taking them away to a better climate. A smug smile sat on her lips as she sipped on her cranberry juice, knowing exactly what was in store. Jess was quite smug that she didn't have to make stupid groaning noises with the rest of us. Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair. Insurer Standard Life really should pull those smug, glossy television advertisements it is running. Those who predicted doom and gloom at the start of the campaign will no doubt be feeling rather smug. This is made worse by smug motorcyclists cruising along, seemingly uninterrupted by the harsh realities of the motoring world. Tell me you love the pics and I'll be smug about them for a couple of days. We sauntered out of the house, feeling fairly smug as we'd got organised quite quickly for a change. Nothing worse than seeing all those smug Lib Dems poncing around, as if they own the place. Only a few days ago I was feeling smug about not coming down with anything even though my workmates were dropping like flies. A smile that could have been ripped from the Cheshire cats face spread across Hilary's smug phizog. If anyone ever deserved to wear the smug grin of a Cheshire cat with all the cream, it is Julia Drown right now. This is a famously livable city, and its residents tend to be famously smug about the fact. It may also be good for the Democrats, who could use a jolt of electricity to shock them out of their smug complacency. Having put that subject to bed and feeling smug about my penetrating analysis, I didn't think about it again until I went to a capital city. I think the smug thing is spot on, I really can't stand the guy and I don't know why. Over the decades, many artists and cartoonists have created wicked caricatures of the smug and powerful. The characters in both the novel and film are very two-dimensional topped off by a smug happy ending which feels empty. A pastiche of autobiography and post-modern plot twists, it was haunted by an off-putting tone of smug precociousness. Show More Sentences He always ends up looking smug like he's just done something evil, or conniving like he's planning something evil. Where once she was smug and funny about her career and marriage, now she is feisty and despairing. He saw himself, easily carrying the weight of his friend, a smug grin on his face, and those green peepers of his flashing devilishly. A smug academic thinks he can intellectualise his way out of human problems of love and jealousy, and he is punctured. There are no people on Earth more smug and superior than the right-wing punditocracy. The idea of enduring several hours of smug comedy songs may be enough to deter many cinema-goers from parting with the entrance fee. But while a swagger of smug certainty plays well on television, prudence might argue for an open mind and the occasional flicker of doubt. We exchanged those rather smug looks that you do when you've just enjoyed a very special meal. Compare that to the eternally smug self-satisfied attitudes exhibited by the advocates and practitioners of music. They go home feeling accomplished, smug and self-satisfied because their intentions were noble and worthy. A smug smile on her face, she reached up and found her grip on the acoustic tile. I did a bit of redrafting, then emailed it into the office, feeling smug that I was working from home. As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing. While I'm in a bit of a ratty mood, does anybody want to have a guess about which smug London-based website e-mailed me overnight? Who has the right to be smug and conceited in his own powers or accomplishments or talents? In Norway Henrik Ibsen incorporated in his plays the smug and narrow ambitiousness of his society. But his final remarks were just so pious and smug that he lost his advantage. But I do hope the interviewing style for tonight's seven-headed debate is a bit less smug than that. Hundreds of factories are closing their doors while this government sits back, smug and immobile in its laissez-faire, do-nothing attitude. He maintained his innocence, his rote replies taking on a smug absurdity: Q: May the deponent say to which organization he belongs. Show More Sentences As tabloid values get a hammering, a ghastly, keening note of smug middle-class sanctimoniousness has been added. I point to the arrogant and smug new President of the Treasury Board, who is always rising to talk of change. She can laugh and be smug all she wants, but if she has an ounce of pride left, she should resign. This smug response is based on the lame excuse that the Liberals did nothing to create new child care spaces, so why should the Conservatives. The collective will of Parliament is being ignored because of the Prime Minister's smug confidence that he knows best. We Brits now know how he felt, and some of you might even find a smug satisfaction at the very thought. Clearly, this smug state of parliamentary affairs is no longer acceptable in the eyes of Gibson. Just so I would not get smug about my discovery, my co-worker showed me other maps that also presented opinions and ideas, rather than facts. Why was Canada being so smug and not realizing it was so important to sit, speak and renew relationships with Japan? So there I was, at a screening at the Berlin International Film Festival, smug with pride. Even better, he is prepared to stand up for his beliefs and treat the smug superiority of the trimmers, appeasers and Euro-elites with the contempt that they deserve. I hate every word that comes out of his smug and punchable mouth. I brood without control sometimes, sleepless, like a child in tears, and like all the hardhanded workers, smug patriots, and ordinary men on the street I've known in my life She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner. Thirlwell uses a probing and unique narrative voice which, although jarring at times in its smug omniscience, takes us to the very centre of his characters' anxieties. There is a certain amount of smug satisfaction to be gained from having greater access than the numerous Mercedes and BMWs which are forced to give way in the leafy lanes. I felt infused with a smug glow of satisfaction until I remembered I had a pile of muddy plant pots festering on my potting table so large it was threatening to engulf me. We in Australia have nothing to be smug about with the Murray River turned into a saline drip, and the Snowy no more extensive than a geriatric's widdle. He looked so smug sitting there, but handsome as all get out. The trailer shows a few seconds of gameplay before the camera pans round to show a nauseatingly smug lifestyler hamming her way through a mockery of the control scheme. Show More Sentences Many of us have tired of his sanctimonious, smug condescension. Today there's an apple, a smug looking egg teed up in a cup. That would be a nice little layer of icing, because it would prove the smug conventional wisdom as wrong as it usually is. You'll feel a smug warmth every time you pass a broiler chicken house and think of your own happy, healthy poultry scratching in the dust at home. So now I'm triply smug because I have played on stage with her at a gig. Walking uptown through the frosted streets last Thursday I felt a smug satisfaction with the city and the way that familiar sights seemed transformed by the snow. There's something vaguely smug about a filmmaker crafting a wholly unrealistic portrait of America and then criticizing us for being as violent as the people in his movie. They're both inexplicably wealthy and powerful, with beautiful girlfriends and proportionally smug attitudes. He was lying there, looking up at the star-freckled sky with something like smug amusement twisting his lips, turning his expression into an odd parody of a smile. As Smashie and Nicey, two dim but smug veteran platter-spinners, they parodied the worst kind of radio voices as crescendos of self-promotion and wannabe-trendy vocabulary. It would have to be with the video for maximum impact, since the sight of Bono's smug histrionics reduces all sensitive sentient creatures to a state of rabid insensate rage. It is hard to resist feeling smug at the idea of a woman famed for her cool-headedness and self-discipline becoming a love-struck text-message junkie. Dundee is livid in the corner between rounds while Foster has a smug look. The commander sat in the turret cupola, looking awfully smug. One of the great mysteries of Australian political life is why a man who is about to dump a dog of a tax system on an unsuspecting public should appear so smug? He wants to reform the impossibly cliquey party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami. However, we know he was a prude and I perceive him, to a certain degree, as a prick and smug and that is where we start. Diana's is the kind of smug life that would almost make one sick, but the writing darkens the atmosphere. But she, Josie, is an insufferably smug New York psychotherapist who high-handedly dissolves her marriage. The smug conceitedness of the Boston fan as a species, which is matched only by the smug conceitedness of the New York fan, doesn't help. Show More Sentences Flashing a smug grin while throwing up your collective shoulders in blithe befuddlement should convince absolutely no one. I stopped for a coffee at Harbor Springs, a spick-and-span resort town – not smug, but reeking of contentment. In it, he had the kind of smug smile of someone who feels lucky to be who he is. Rather than smart, they are smarty-pants: smug, priggish and set up for a pratfall. I'd had it resprayed a beautiful powder blue and put in a loud sound system and used to rock around the trendy parts of north London feeling pretty smug about myself. We fear that they will throw away our gains and sacrifice our future security for immediate comfort and smug self-righteousness. Sitting at a table surround by adults, as Sunday lunch was served, I felt inordinately smug that I'd escaped the kids' table for once in my life. He traces the history of ideas with skill and care, and he avoids the smug certainty of many contemporary science writers. And what emboldened them to do it with such ostentation, if not the smug assurance that they could count on their Western partners' firm support? We are getting too self-righteous and smug in our self-importance. Must they pledge never to make a sexist or fattist remark because some smug pressure group says so? He is manipulative, smug, and self-righteous. A warm sense of good parenting envelopes the heart of all smug mums including me, the smuggest of them all. She smacks Georgia's smug chops, leaving Mrs Snooty lost for words, which is a first. This drew a quiet, slightly smug smile from Dyson. In those days he seemed to wear a permanent smug smile. But his smug smile is soon wiped off his face when Tony drags him in to the ginnel to administer a beating in revenge for his attack on his son. Is there a link to the bitter rivalry between the smug townies and the rural rabble? The London I finally discovered was as rumpled and comfy as old corduroy and as stylish and smug as the sassiest fashionistas. You'll be able to lookdown on those irritatingly smug colleagues who make a point of shaking their heads and staring at their watches. Show More Sentences For every concise insight you find in this smug smog, there are at least two that make you want to toss the heap of pages into a lime pit. The ratbag is hopefully soon to be unravelled as I can't take much more of his smug face around the Woolpack. Then they stood in front of the chalkboard, smug and self-satisfied. Personally, for several reasons, I feel that the tone of the report is excessively smug with regard to the liberalisation that has already taken place. We sometimes seem very smug and self-satisfied within our borders. It would never occur to a smug Liberal finance minister that many of the people in the food services industry, for instance, are there because they are working their way through school. The minister's smug response just shows how out of touch he usually is. Canadians should not be smug about it, but they can say that they have come to terms with diversity in a world in which diversity is bound to become more common. Diamond geezer, smug git, or filthy-tempered old fart? Mr. Speaker, the hon. member can be very smug all she wants. Lyn Gardner: Blasted was dismissed by a handful of critics but the conversation has changed A blast at our smug theatre: Edward Bond on Sarah Kane Sarah Kane: Why can't theatre be as gripping as footie? I'd moan about how unbearably smug this must make all those stupid optimists, but my time here is limited and it'd probably only slash a couple more months off my life. First, there is the shameful government response, the smug and idiotic claim that it is actually doing something with the bogus regressive tax giveaway of a few bucks a month. I watched him exit his car with a smug smile on his face. Beating a smug and bedraggled England outfit in Australia was one thing. Is Donald Rumsfeld's smug smile a bluff, or has he seen a smoking gun? Viewers who have endured his smug witlessness on Let's Dance For Comic Relief know how wrong he is. All were standard transmission cars — I was pretty smug about my driving. He was no better than the smug marrieds who haunted Central Park, guzzling boydick then bringing hepatitis home to their wives. It is completely normal to harbour desires to batter these smug twunts about the head with a hot MacBook Air. Show More Sentences Without being in any way smug she was radiant with self-satisfaction and well-doing. Put aside your expectations and what we have here is a self-indulgent and tedious luvvie comedy where smug has been substituted for smart. Simon's smug pontifications and his seeming lack of concern sicken her. It was the age of smug, self-glorifying imperialism. Jim Naughtie's interview with Sir Ian McKellen, Patrick Stewart, Simon Callow and Ronald Pickup – the cast of a new production of Waiting for Godot – was repellently smug and self-admiring on all fronts. Both pictures, but especially the latter, are little more than markers of cultural capital, smug displays of social superiority and personal wealth. This negative word implies grudging concessions by smug consciences. As the smoke and charred remains of the Guardian cleared, I saw the mother of my children, with a smug look of satisfaction, blow out the match and place the matchbox back on the mantelpiece. Underdo it and it will resemble a smug, groovy religious studies teacher. Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them? Layer upon layer of brandy, rum, creamy custard, fruit, amaretti biscuits and Madeira cake is finally topped with a smug lemon syllabub and a cluster of roses. Arrogant and smug Lord Of The Manor Declan may have bagged himself a trophy wife, but he is about to discover why marriage is referred to as a ball and chain. Winnie the Poohs can be a little smug and take great pride in the fact that while the rest of us are spinning like crazy tops, they're walking calmly through life. Alfie's to camera commentary is retained, but you never get the same sense of it being a confidante, more of a gimmick that quickly becomes smarmily smug and irritating. This should not reinforce any smug, self-righteous complacency on the part of mainline churches. Is it any wonder I am infuriated by smug, self-righteous politicians who know nothing about country life yet want to abolish hunting with hounds? You frequently encounter a stereotype of Americans as self-satisfied and smug. This isn't the smug, self-satisfied account of a young person growing up in the suburbs, with all the boredom and complacency that follows. It is smug, fundamentalist rubbish to suggest that simply because people do not believe in this particular bill, they are anti-family. Never sanctimonious or smug, his art seems founded on a sense of rectitude. Show More Sentences It's probably because she has found after six years that she is married to a smug, self-satisfied, arrogant, pompous twit. Even from this distance it exudes the smug, self-satisfied and lively aura for which it is famous. Anna seems to believe its legacy belongs to a legion of smug, self-satisfied designers and copywriters. This sort of smug, self-righteous moralising is exactly what the original American student was speaking out against. It might be thought that I am aloof, smug, emotionally cool or that I believe that I am better than anyone else. Staying out of the media spotlight can lead to accusations of being aloof or distant or smug. He had a proud, smug, smile plastered over his dark face, eyeing Sora knowingly as if he finally got the answer he needed. Pearl tried to appear nonchalant by acting smug, but the glistening smile in her eyes betrayed her true feelings. Over a period of just a few weeks, a host of high profile periodicals have published smug, scornful dismissals of the music. On video, Raymond Santana was smug, boastful, and nonchalant by turns, vividly reenacting who did what during the rape. Hal is indeed shallow, smug, chubby, in love with himself and in thrall to his late clergyman father's last piece of advice that he should chase only the hottest totty. In the book, Alice is a smug, Victorian braggart who loves nothing more than showing off her knowledge. A smug, self-pitying sleepwalk through celebrity culture, it might make her Hollywood pals smirk but it will likely make you snore. This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction. Examples from Classical Literature Have you grown sleek and fat and smug in my service that you should requite me thus? We sat down at the only spare table in the place, and looked round at the smug and varment citizens with whom the room was filled. He used to say that the bourgeoisie, the smug, overfed lot, had killed them. The brat stopped to breathe for a moment and a faintly human expression came over the stupendously smug little face. It was then that the chiens de faience, which the smug Paris suburbanite of to-day so loves, were born. Trimble Rogers was in no situation to rant at smug William, the linen draper. And then we all know the culprits who post endless poolside 'selfies' and smug look-at-me-I'm-inparadise Facebook statuses while they're away. Old Sally's scoldings didn't matter, nor Marty's smug confidence. Your pitiful little conventions and smug assumptions of decency would prevent. I looked into his smug face, and I was within an ace of striking him. Bobby smiled up at him in smug satisfaction over his own wiliness. The man with the monocle was smug with the self-satisfaction of his tribe. Also this week, Ryan and Declan are both furious that smug Nathan has found a buyer for Home Farm and gloats about cashing in. Like a lion in a menagerie, it is a survival of the extinct chaos entrapped and exhibited amid the smug parks and well-rolled downs of England. When the secretary of the Gun Club found that Barbicane and Nicholl accepted the proposal of Michel Ardan, he determined to join them, and make one of a smug party of four. We should not allow our horror at a terrorist massacre to coarsen our attitudes by overidentifying with Charlie Hebdo's smug derision of others' dearly held beliefs. It is a discourse against all those who confound virtue with tameness and smug ease, and who regard as virtuous only that which promotes security and tends to deepen sleep. Fraser leaned forward, that smug, vain smile curling his lips. How he distrusted and feared this smug, self-complacent young man! Find more words! 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What is the opposite of smug? Words that rhyme with smug What is the past tense of smug? What is the adverb for smug? What is the adjective for smug? What is the noun for smug? Translations for smug Use our Sentence Generator Nearby Words smudgy smudging smudgily smudges smudger smudged smugger smuggest smuggle smuggled smuggler smugglers 4-letter Words Starting With s sm smu