[
US
/ˈsməɡɫi/
]
[ UK /smˈʌɡli/ ]
[ UK /smˈʌɡli/ ]
ADVERB
-
in a smug manner
the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern
How To Use smugly In A Sentence
- What other character do you know of who is searingly brilliant, stunningly engaging in his rat-a-tat-tat conversational wizardly, totally and even smugly tactless and rude - and still adored? Bella DePaulo: Facebook Movie: The Arrogance of Achievement vs. the Arrogance of Inheritance
- So I was distinctly underwhelmed when a colleague smugly confided that he was a dream date ‘because he cook’.
- While others biked in the early morning cold downtown, I could smugly sip my coffee and watch raindrops hitting the window. Heidi Dietrich: Biking to the Gates Foundation
- It's a saying that makes women livid with frustration and anger at the unfairness of life, while men can remain smugly secure in their bald spot.
- An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments.
- Smugly he points out he is not the one in debt.
- During a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Barton smugly posed a "stumper" to Energy Secretary Steve Chu: MNpublius.com
- I saw all of the Harry Potter movies," he smugly replies. Animation Nation
- While gleefully announcing that Chomsky's website has (gasp) a copyright warning, Schweizer smugly points out that the site "does give you the opportunity to 'sublicense' the material ["]. Slackbastard
- With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.