smarmy

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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
• Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
• (However, I am refusing to use the too-smarmy spelling of "vampyre" and "vyrus" that permeates the book.) REVIEW: Already Dead by Charlie Huston
• Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied.
• 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
• No one likes a smarmy adulator.
• Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ... The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
• 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
• She was trying to be friendly, but she just seemed smarmy and insincere.
• 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