How To Use Smugly In A Sentence
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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?
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So I was distinctly underwhelmed when a colleague smugly confided that he was a dream date ‘because he cook’.
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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
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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.
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An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments.
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Smugly he points out he is not the one in debt.
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During a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Barton smugly posed a "stumper" to Energy Secretary Steve Chu:
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I saw all of the Harry Potter movies," he smugly replies.
Animation Nation
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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
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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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Meanwhile Birkin slowly uncovers the wall-painting, which shows the righteous trooping smugly off to heaven while the damned dive towards hell.
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When I told my friend about our good luck, she smugly told me it wasn't luck.
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Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments.
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At least the late publisher William Gaines's MAD magazine -- having risen phoenixlike from the ashes of that witch hunt -- survives to smile a gap-toothed grin at today's news and reply smugly: "What, me worry?
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Smiling smugly at the cabin ceiling, Hsin - mei said, " Not necessarily.
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Before you sit back smugly and think that you would never make a mistake like the one this young writer made, realize that everyone who is in business for himself — every single freelancer/business owner — has made this mistake at least once.
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In my experience, people who refer to themselves as geeks usually do so self-deprecatingly whereas people who refer to themselves as nerds do so loudly and smugly.
Venn Diagram: The Difference Between Geek, Nerd, Dork and Dweeb | /Film
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At the Pentagon, however, senior naval officials appear smugly confident that the Chinese would turn tail once the U. S. carriers show up like the cavalry.
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At least the late publisher William Gaines's MAD magazine -- having risen phoenixlike from the ashes of that witch hunt -- survives to smile a gap-toothed grin at today's news and reply smugly: "What, me worry?
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The mousy-haired girl was gaining on Lyra fast; in hardly a second she'd bounded over Lyra's head, and stood in front of her, smiling smugly and effectively cutting her off from Tay.
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It was a ghastly little BBC hackette speaking from Washington who smugly intoned last night that the dreadful "friendly fire" incident, which we reported yesterday, was "a public relations disaster for the US".
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You can’t come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say ‘Oh it’s torture, and therefore it’s no good.’
Scalia Openly Condones Torture : Law is Cool
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The Weirs' book contains scores of seductive recipes, many of which, I smugly think, would have been wasted on my younger self in any case – Campari and orange, Earl Grey, tamarind – but, as the principle of the sorbet is the important thing, here I've decided to stick with the undisputed classic of the genre.
How to make perfect lemon sorbet
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While I waited for him, slightly smugly, I found myself glancing once more at a notice board.
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A tiny girl outdid them all by improvising a skirt from her brawny boyfriend's wind-cheater, with the collar zipped smugly round her waist and the sleeves turned inwards, the cuffs dangling well below the hemline!
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Adding to the proceedings the tale of the antiseptic marriage of Peter (Jeff Allin) and Ann (Colleen Delany) does lay the groundwork for some intriguing parallels: Peter is a smugly self-sufficient target for both Ann and Jerry (James McMenamin), who share a restless disdain for the status quo - and a potential to explode.
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So, if I were to meet someone new, at what point am I supposed to change my status so that it smugly reads "In A Relationship"?
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I don't think the term "smugly conclusive" is appropriate to describe his opening statement.
NY Daily News
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‘Come on Drake, you can do it’ Emily said smugly while juggling five herself.
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the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern
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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
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He somewhat smugly notes that 96 per cent of those polled believe in God or some other higher power.
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On small things I was thrifty enough; no expenditures on "carousing," flashy clothes, or any of the other indulgences that are often smugly believed to undermine the budgets of the poor.
Nickel and Dimed
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Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes smugly proclaimed, "Three generations of imbeciles are enough."
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The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here.
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The Democrats, now smugly confident, may start to bicker among themselves.
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She grins smugly and says, ‘I love you too, honey,’ as she sneaks a sip of her coffee.
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One night, after a recording "sesh" (that's "session" for all you Squaresville residents), he fired up the VHS with a Miller HBO special, and proceeded to pause the tape after every "joke" to explain in detail the multi-layered cultural references contained within each smugly-delivered observo-nugget.
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We're supposed to hear these questions and nod sagely and smugly, concurring that of course the answer to each of these dumb questions is no - and then trot out merrily and buy a car.
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He says kind of smugly, well I think its obvious why you're here.
Slick and Attired: Wearing Whatever You Want
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The computer's voice interjected smugly, "That threat is extremely unlikely to succeed’.
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It was all very well for her, treating her body like a temple, but the effect of her sitting there purifying herself smugly at my dinner table was to turn everyone else's food to ashes in their mouths.
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The loudest voices talking about religion are either so rigidly and judgmentally Christian that I'm tempted to chuck my Bible at someone, or so smugly secular that I want to pray in public to affirm that faith can be a good thing.
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Sometimes I thought, quite smugly, that Sire Galan would have cut a swath through these coxcombs, with his wit and his sword.
Wildfire
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It certainly "smarted", but on the whole the birth was so straightforward I went around, for ages afterwards, droning smugly about how I was "of good working-class stock – hailing from an era when women would chuck one out, then carry on with the haymaking".
Don't believe the propaganda about births at home | Barbara Ellen
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Parker was smiling smugly, but then, predictably, his expression clouded.
The Will
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Defenders of cognitive behaviour therapy are sitting smugly on a mountain of their own evidence.
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And that's the kind of smugly liberal double standard that will contribute to the election of McCain/Palin.
Palinsanity.
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Edmonton Journal ran an article headlined "Volcano exposes mankind's limits," arguing that Eyjafjallajökull's "belch" has exposed the "striking incapacity of human beings, however smugly sophisticated, to either predict such phenomena or do much about them.
Reason Magazine
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Smiling smugly at the cabin ceiling, Hsin - mei said, " Not necessarily.
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NBC's Perfect Couples is perfect as only one thing: an unwelcome reminder of the long-ago era when "must-see" NBC ruled Thursdays it's been a while, and the network was so smugly complacent it regularly filled the 8:30/7:30c half-hour between hits with cookie-cutter nonentities.
Roush Review: A Thursday Logjam
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Yet, despite his shortcomings, he presides smugly over a programme in which young couples pit their attractiveness against that of their friends to win cash.
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I now get extremely annoyed by the secular fundamentalists who are content to remain smugly ignorant of enormous shifts occurring all around them.
Kicking the Secularist Habit
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We smugly headed for disaster, confident in our abilities and worry-free because nothing had ever gone wrong before.
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I heard the buzz that signaled for me to open the door and I smiled smugly as I walked in.
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It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel.
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So, I'm sorry, but I find it rather silly to claim that such business models don't exist or that those of us who "smugly" claim the industry needs to find a new business model never suggest any.
Techdirt
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Like others of my generation, I look smugly down on the philistines of 1960 who couldn't see the self-evident greatness of Psycho, now widely viewed as one of the most brilliant achievements of the American screen.
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Soaking in the sun amidst the abundant culture around, I sat back on a bench, smugly pleased with myself.
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It makes me seethe with anger, the image of these people smugly congratulating themselves for their self-righteousness while hurting so many good and decent people.
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Sooner, rather than later, library writers smugly mention their object-oriented approach.
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I swear he gets more smugly punchable with every appearance.
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Having finished his story, Old Father rather smugly reached into the bowl and placed a shraddha seed into his mouth.
THE BROKEN GOD
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It's ironic that a conservationist should so smugly place his own interests above the lives of the animals he destroys.
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In one of the many smugly tended, overpriced noodle shops we met Bob, a guide as sure-footed as a mountain goat.
