| In those days, he seemed like a smarmy dumb American, but he's grown into the best actor of his generation. |
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| We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom. |
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| Most of it, however, sounds like last night's carnival, a smarmy brand of entertainment, too self satisfied to show real soul. |
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| Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters. |
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| The astuteness and rapier-like quality of his writing doesn't need smarmy expletive witticisms to back it up. |
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| Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity. |
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| Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied. |
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| Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough, and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever. |
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| The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking, handholding, smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave. |
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| Actually, I suspect Skinner would be more interesting on his own, when not playing half of a smarmy double-act. |
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| And yeah the characters can be annoying sometimes, but they're not nearly as smarmy as most other sitcoms, so it's ahead by default. |
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| Some people might find it a little smarmy but it's very funny about publishing, agents and publicists. |
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| Year in year out, hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe, those silly smarmy marmy waves. |
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| Pretty, sweet, charming and as far from the slick, besuited, smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected. |
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| A smarmy radio station Director considers himself positively brilliant by getting rid of a troublesome author through insincere flattery. |
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| Let's face it, we smarmy and sarky Brits will throw in a bit of ironic drollery at the drop of a hat. |
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| There was some smarmy Chardonnay socialist banging on about how we should be buying hybrids. |
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| We'll no longer be subjected to his smarmy punim on our televisions every Monday night! |
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| They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans. |
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| Meet Tony, smarmy chick-magnet, Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual. |
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| Yes, he's a smarmy know-it-all with the personality of a hall monitor, the kind of guy everyone hides from at a Christmas party. |
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| I wish Brooks could figure out from week to week if he wants to be an attack dog or smarmy. |
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| There are more whiskeys on the glass shelves than you'll find in most distilleries and the staff are charming without being smarmy. |
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| Primarily a portrait of suburban teenage angst, it feels entirely contemporary, yet it avoids the smarmy self-consciousness of most horror films. |
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| Marc's smarmy false congratulations are another reminder to Josie of his ability to destroy her bliss. |
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| How did a silly article by a smarmy TV presenter whom not very many people take seriously come to dominate the news? |
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| Thomas Sadoski should be the frontrunner to play every smarmy privileged thirty-something from now on. |
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| Bev hates him – rightly so, he's a smarmy so-and-so who attempts to work in snide references to Yoko Ono every time they meet. |
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| Without even addressing the fact that he drove to Canada with his dog strapped to the roof of his car, we could call him smarmy. |
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| I choose musicians as an example because they are ordinarily expected to be drug-addled teenagers or smarmy adolescent YouTubers. |
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| He has almost no chance of winning my vote, out of principle more than anything else, however he's a good political performer, if a little smarmy. |
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| Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow. |
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| From suave Jack Ryan to smarmy Eugene Kittridge, potential candidates for America's next top spook. |
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| And anyway they just open themselves up to obvious charges of being dishonest and smarmy. |
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| Krishnan Guru-Murthy is too bolshy, Andrew Neil is old fashioned and Jeremy Vine too smarmy. |
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| Zuckerberg was on NPR today, being smarmy and disingenuous. He's a total douchebro. I hate myself for supporting his business model. |
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| I thought Osborne gave a very smarmy answer, but I found Darling's response compelling: he said he had been speaking to his son about that very issue and realised the government had to do something about it. |
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| There's no shortage of smarmy coming of age tales with the cliche events we all know. |
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| No one addressed these issues when I posed this question some smarmy, smooth talking lecturer reiterated as if I were some innocent who had just woken up from my cradle. |
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| Smarmy Grant, 51, split from 25-year-old ZOE DE MALLET MORGAN in August. |
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