How To Use Smarm In A Sentence
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Citing a "smarmy" letter that Washington wrote in 1757, bemoaning his lot to the commander in chief, Lord Loudoun, Mr. Clary highlights some especially outspoken, self-pitying and "whining" comments.
War in the Wilderness
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Simon notes that he's going hatless and being a bit smarmily please-the-parents-y: ‘I prefer the other side of you, to be honest.’
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In combination with the dark, bass-heavy production, the performance is a stark contrast from the bubblegum smarm of the original, instead focusing on the song's essence: suicide and its extremes.
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Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
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(However, I am refusing to use the too-smarmy spelling of "vampyre" and "vyrus" that permeates the book.)
REVIEW: Already Dead by Charlie Huston
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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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He was very intelligent, he came from Wales expecting to make something of himself... but he wasn't smarmy enough for the City.
LOST CHILDREN
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No one likes a smarmy adulator.
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i love Apple, Toyota, Jon Stewart makes me lol as he smarms his way through my progressive beliefs, he's like a living blog! omfg have u seen ball maher? that guy is like, brilliant.
Dealbreaker
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Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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At the blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future.
Yakkety-Yak
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Rob smarmed his way through a ghastly cover of my primary-school favourite song, 1927's ‘If I could.’
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She was trying to be friendly, but she just seemed smarmy and insincere.
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DYNAMITE: The term applies to TNT's bittersweet Men of a Certain Age, continuing its terrific second season, but not so much to the instantly tiresome new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash, which implodes in the belief that aggressive quirkiness, smarmy frat-boy sexual innuendo and a "suits are douches" philosophy will endear its Peter Pan protagonists to a wide audience.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all?
No, i have time
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Can I noninate George Will for a Nobel prize in smarmy?
Think Progress » George Will mocks Krugman’s Nobel Prize: It’s ‘in economics, not in practical Washington wisdom.’
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Something about his smarmy attitude makes me want to shake him so hard his collarbone breaks.
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Congress routinely adopts policies that cater to special interests, which are then justified by the sort of smarmy, fact-free spin that the comedian Stephen Colbert has labeled "truthiness."
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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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We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
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And when some smarmy clueless sicko is watching you do this while asking you why it takes so long to count some pills and put them in a bottle, I can imagine the veins popping out of the pharmacist’s head now.
The new pill bottle
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I agree with Lois - Not only has no poet ever seen the kind of money James Patterson makes, there's also that smarmy tone Amanda Urban uses: when she says "some poet" she makes poets sound like something you step in accidentally on the sidewalk.
J.K. Rowling wishes they paid by the word.
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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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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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Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress.
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‘I'll leave you two for a few moments to decide what you want,’ the man smarmed and then left to go and throw out some poor looking people.
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A visitor from California is Diana's brother, Adam, who is running for Congress, accompanied by his young, smarmily solicitous secretary, Jamie.
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You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits.
The Wisdom of Clowns
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He kissed my hand at the end of the evening - in a very courtly and gentlemanly way, not like a smarmy guy making a move.
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Whitehead appears as a smarmy stand-up comic without the charisma or patter to carry off his narrative duties.
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The smile in your face conceals a darkness in your heart, and there are still some in this green and pleasant land unwilling to let their knees buckle before your rapacious onslaught of smarm and spin.
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He was very intelligent, he came from Wales expecting to make something of himself... but he wasn't smarmy enough for the City.
LOST CHILDREN
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By the end, he is smarming his hair down flat and wears a long leather coat.
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Of course it is needless to say this was dressed up with faux-creative writing skills, accompanied by the kind of smarmy posturing and ad hominems that so frequently characterizes the attacks from “the left”.
2009 April 22 « Unambiguously Ambidextrous
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Meet Tony, smarmy chick-magnet, Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual.
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Now at the top of the local politics food chain, Adams 'weaknesses are revealed, and the revelation is a yawner: Adams is, in fact, a mediocre leader who's finding out that the smarmy platitudes are no longer sufficient, and cannot replace leadership, real ethics, and courageous judgement.
Tick, tick, tick (Jack Bog's Blog)
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I expected him to be smarmier than he is.
Times, Sunday Times
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I'm not about to sell my house, May thought, so there's no call to smarm.
PROSPECT HILL
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The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
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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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He plays smarm well, and his is the most interesting character in the film arguably.
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I saw it live - smarmy Shep was upset because the anchorette had interviewed Republican Christie without doing the same for 'rat Corzine - of course he himself had just violated the
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Flanking him was the smarmy art dealer Vincent Faunce and my cousin Alistair.
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I'd rather be exposed to Glenn Beck after a full-blown Healthcare-Is-Fascism hissy fit, eyes streaming crocodile tears, rocking back and forth in the fetal position with his thumb in his mouth and a pool of drool dripping down his moisturized chinny chin-chin (actually high-fructose corn syrup, but it works for the camera) than this former second-string Miss Alaska smarmily playing pretend at punditry.
Fox's Barracuda Jumps the Shark
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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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I'm not about to sell my house, May thought, so there's no call to smarm.
PROSPECT HILL
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This type of smarm and patronization is how the democrats alienate the middle class and will ultimately lose the next election for them.
Democrats accuse GOP of inciting mobs
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He lacks style, he lacks smarm, he lacks sureness in his step.
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smarmy self-importance
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Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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At the same time, though, when I read the account in Figaro, it doesn't mention Sarkozy blowing up or anything, so perhaps the French just took it as a bit of smarmy American brownnosing of a global elder statesman or something.
Does Obama not know who's president of France? Or is he intentionally insulting Sarkozy?
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Ryan's comfortably nomadic existence is upset when his smarmy boss, Craig (Jason Bateman), hires the freshly minted Natalie (Anna Kendrick) and institutes her plan to "revolutionize" the business by terminating employees via the Internet.
Timely 'Up in the Air' rises to challenge with humor, heart
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I did not want to do this and it makes me feel kind of smarmy but you leave me no choice.
Clinton: My Dad Taught Me How To Shoot
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You quote me correctly to say, Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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But stick with the cheapjack chin-puller smarm posing as serious commentary, Alex.
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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He comes across as a real enthusiast, almost a sports-casting throwback, rather than one of those slick and smarmy identikit broadcasters who seem to dominate modern television and radio.
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‘I am glad to see you after your lamentable performance for the Spain v Ukraine game’ he smarms.
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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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Marc's smarmy false congratulations are another reminder to Josie of his ability to destroy her bliss.
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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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Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow.
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Chelsea should do well today, starting with 12 players," smarms Kevin Eldridge who has apparently spotted a typo.
The Guardian World News
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Daria asked as the four of them, seated at the back of the room, watched as Rosaline sketched with great flourishes on a large sketchpad, posing dramatically for the girls sitting around her, cooing and smarming.
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Despite their rhetoric, their smarm, their thin veneer of respectability, they are racists by any intelligent definition.
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Primetime television is to be consolidated into one twenty-five-year-long compendium spreading across a hundred and eighteen channels in forty countries, a media type smarmed earlier.
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Luke smarms around her in a glutinous way.
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I don't think he would've been very thrilled with life in the no-smoking smarm of the Tofu Era.
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All I saw and heard were politically loaded questions with no discernible purpose while the team >smarmed their way through a restricted news content.
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Over at Jake Tosser's Political Cockpunch, one of Tosser's interns smarms it up on behalf of the boss:
Roger Ailes
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Nice to meet you," he said in a voice that recalled the smarmy tone of Eddie Haskell complimenting June Cleaver on her fetching outfit.
My Drifter Doppelganger
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Laying the smarm on a bit thick, aren't we Howie?
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Dang, and then I get back and they've got some pop smarm.
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Oh, yeah?Yeah, I wonder why?What could that smarmy letch possibly want?
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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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In lesser hands, this film could've been hackneyed smarm.
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If you asked him anything at all, he would reply, smarmily, ‘Well, that is the question, isn't it?’
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They'll all be there with their snouts in the trough; all grinning smarmily and slapping backs; all trying to outdo each other with acts of screaming political correctness.
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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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Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress.
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He smarmed and sneered his way through his much anticipated new comedy.
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But he did it with a trademark smarm and overpowering obnoxiousness that left Giblets coming back for more!
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A poisson-out-of-water story that strings up Anglo-Franco Canadian tension without any social smarm.
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He was more dewy than smarmy - self-satisfied yet eager to please.
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For eighty-six years the Sox bore the terrible curse - the burnt devil mark of the demon Yankees, smarmily collecting win upon win with a sense of bloated entitlement.
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But at least a large proportion of the crowd booed as he smarmed his way onto the rostrum, as was also the case at the Rugby League grand final.
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The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
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Others will find the level of smarm suffocating, as every plot twist occasions a self-conscious musical outbreak, with the characters tunelessly expressing every little thought in their heads in song.
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“Jist smiles and smiles, kisses them like a Frenchie, smarms all ower them.”
Death of a Charming Man
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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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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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‘Wales must be delighted with the way they've hit back at England after the goal,’ he smarmed towards the end of the first half.
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Deeper and deeper I dived into the bucket of smarm that had replaced my pool of wit and charm.
THE MANANA MAN
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‘A… uh… word if I may,’ he smarms, sidling into Mission Control.
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Deeper and deeper I dived into the bucket of smarm that had replaced my pool of wit and charm.
THE MANANA MAN
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This is not just a smarmy pep talk but an unflinching discussion of real angst and a real adjustment process.
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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 student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike.
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 “I make it… HOT,” he smarms but the women of Tharr are completely bewildered.
Review: Adventure Comics #3 | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News
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I daren't even speculate on their devilish purposes… begone with your blinding lights and televisual smarm!
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Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.
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This Government smarms all over the place with its little rules and regulations, and the spin that it keeps putting on people.
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The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
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Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
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‘Good afternoon, ladies’, he smarmed, cleansing his throat abruptly, cruising towards the startled snippets of feminine vagary with an outstretched, sinuous hand and an all too courtly demeanour.
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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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Moronic progs might someday come to realize that pandering to progs is not going “to win friends and influence people” … I think GWB learned that lesson when Daddy made a tax increase deal with that smarmy former Speaker of the House, Tom Foley (D-WA) … THAT two-faced liar showed that progs could not be trusted when their lips were moving ….
Think Progress » Bolten’s First Act As Chief of Staff Is To Defend Rumsfeld
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It may be conscious, but it beats the smarm deployed by so many of their colleagues.
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Harry used to smarm round senior management, but he spoke abruptly to our long-in-the-tooth admin guy; directed him, and the trainees like me, to do his photocopying without a please or thank you.
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Mrs. Grimble recommenced the client interrogatory, turning on the smarm.
Shortcut Man
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The directive set limits on exposure to powerful electromagnetic fields", smarms the Beeb, telling us that "doctors claimed" they were so low that using an MRI scanner could breach them.
Serving its paymasters
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Looking her over carefully, Joe smarmed: ‘Judging from your skin, twenty; your hair, eighteen; and your figure, twenty five.’
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I think it's because he has a certain amount of smarm about him, perhaps it is just a reaction to that.
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Jack Donaghy is one of the funniest characters on TV and Baldwin plays him with just enough smarm and pompousness without overdoing it.
Emmy Picks 2007: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy | the TV addict
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Sceeming, backstabbing moggies, automatically craving respect and deference, oozing smarm and psuedo sophistication are the pets of senior management teams the world over. on December 26, 2008 at 8: 26 pm | Reply inspectorgadget
Battlecat On Boxing Day! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
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He is best known as the smarmy Psychologist in “Silence of the Lambs.”
An Acting Lesson That Teaches You to Write Well
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Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress.
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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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But when his head finally parted company from his shoulders, the divorce wouldn't be caused by any such smarms as Dearborn and his friends, no matter whose bloodline they had descended from.
Wizard and Glass
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He's always trying to smarm his way into a promotion.
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Actually, Hannity always looks a little smarmy, which is one reason he's so irritating, but this is fine.
Hot Air » Top Picks
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Odd how it looks on a screen, free from all its euro-trash smarm slathered all over it.
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Well, I have to wonder if the Scottish Executive will be using Meghrai's mugshot to promote Scotland's "compassionate" justice system when Alex Salmond smarms his way over here next "Tartan Day"?
John Terry’s sacking as England captain tells us something interesting...
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Microsoft and Asus have teamed up to present a new advertising smarm-storm intended to extol the virtues of Windows on netbooks – and smear Linux.
P2pnet World Headlines – June 1, 2009
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This kind of smarmy O-bomb-A cheerleading bullshit needs to be called out every time it appears.
Hillary Ad: Change Comes With Experience
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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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I can certainly picture myself hitting him over the head; he defines smarm.
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The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss.
'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
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While fans of courtroom drama and reality TV will undoubtedly eat this series up, I can't say that I especially enjoyed this wallow through the smarmy world of crime and punishment.
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And he's spraying smarm like the worst kind of cornered politician.
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Reconnecting with this sticky-fingered siren becomes Jason's new vocation and obsession, though he's often distracted by sparring with a smarmy boss SNL's Chris Parnell, very funny in the first few episodes and hanging with a gaggle of aggressively trendy friends, who give the Happy Endings cast a run for their money in name-dropping cultural references.
Thursday's TV: Sweeps Begin, and MTV Loses Its Pants
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They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans.
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I'd rather be exposed to Glenn Beck after a full-blown Healthcare-Is-Fascism hissy fit, eyes streaming crocodile tears, rocking back and forth in the fetal position with his thumb in his mouth and a pool of drool dripping down his moisturized chinny chin-chin actually high-fructose corn syrup, but it works for the camera than this former second-string Miss Alaska smarmily playing pretend at punditry.
Warren Holstein: Fox's Barracuda Jumps the Shark
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Watch out for that extraordinary middle section, as Julie takes over the operatic role - and watch also for a rather smarmy peck on the shoulder at the end.
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KKKarl rove is so crooked he has to screw his pants on. dumbya†™ s smarmy school marm wife murdered her highschool boyfriend. dumbya is a deserter. dumbya was AWOL. dumbya is STUPID. dumby will be impeached. get a clue and go away.
Think Progress » McClellan: Everyone in “the White House Has Been Cooperating Fully With The Special Counsel”
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We spend much of our time sorting truth from the web of myths spun about fracking by fast talking landsmen, smarmy CEOs, and federal regulators.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The Fracking Industry's War On The New York Times -- And The Truth
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And as far as Jay's statement in smarmily choosing to stereotype Christians, I choose to offer the other cheek.
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So what if it contains all of his trademarks: the pious smarm, the embarrassing contradictions, the distortions, the omissions, the sloppy insinuations posing as cogent accusals?
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I say to Mr Tamihere that businesses can smell it, and they are smelling that sort of smarm a mile away.
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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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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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Did, like, Leno set off the smarm alarm or something?!!!
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Some people said that he was smarmy but he wasn't at all.
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He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat.
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KATZ: Well, we look at folks part of the felt family and the word smarmy comes into play.
CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2005
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Flanking him was the smarmy art dealer Vincent Faunce and my cousin Alistair.
