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smugness

[ US /ˈsməɡnəs/ ]
[ UK /smˈʌɡnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

How To Use smugness In A Sentence

  • He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
  • His smugness about the whole affair made us see red.
  • If this is the worst trouble we see all tournament, I shall have to fight the feelings of smugness very hard indeedy.
  • The occasional humblebrag might fly with your audiences but there's a fine line between sincerity and smugness.
  • The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
  • That said, I'm planting the Cone of Smugness firmly on my head to point out two recent spelling errors -- bathyscape should be bathyscaphe, and back when you were talking about randonneurs, you misspelled pretension with a t in the middle instead of an s. Worst of Craigslist: Delicious, Savory Bike Love
  • Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this astonishing story is the smugness of its tone.
  • British tennis continues in its closed feedback loop of smugness and failure. Times, Sunday Times
  • Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers.
  • Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure.
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