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smugly

[ US /ˈsməɡɫi/ ]
[ UK /smˈʌɡli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. 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.
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