How To Use Smugness In A Sentence
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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His smugness about the whole affair made us see red.
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If this is the worst trouble we see all tournament, I shall have to fight the feelings of smugness very hard indeedy.
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The occasional humblebrag might fly with your audiences but there's a fine line between sincerity and smugness.
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The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
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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
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Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this astonishing story is the smugness of its tone.
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British tennis continues in its closed feedback loop of smugness and failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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Smugness, conceit, an arrogance which has the appearance of humility… here I can no longer reserve my hatred for these impotent writers.
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Like a little plumped up raisin, he exudes vanity, smugness and frailty and desolation in equal measure.
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A myriad of emotions plays over his boyish face - wry amusement, disbelief, disgust, and smugness.
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Bill's smugness is in full swing here, and thankfully is toned down in later performances.
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Professor Hart disabused me of my addled adolescent liberalism and smugness over the four years I was his student as an undergraduate.
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He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
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Those unconvinced by James’ alleged infallibility might see it more as evidence of scarcely believable smugness.
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As happens to most men of such quality who attack the accepted smugness and intellectual sloth of their times, he was stamped as a perverse pugnacious fellow who delighted in being against the wisdom of the age.
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Upon them sat antique pots holding ancient plants nobly maintaining their vainglory and smugness as they grew greedily towards the late summer sunshine.
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The problem is the blind smugness of a society, and a political class, that see teenage violence simultaneously as a canker and an abstraction.
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There was a hint of smugness in her voice.
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It's as random and superficial as it sounds, much of the reasoning is frankly spurious and an air of smugness pervades it all.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is a useful corrective against smugness.
Times, Sunday Times
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The one character resistant to change is the professor, who departs wreathed in pedagogic smugness.
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The engaging executive can barely conceal a certain smugness about the privacy problems encountered by the New York rival.
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Any smugness on my part, though, must be tempered by the admission that if it were the Bible that you were talking about, then we'd be in there swinging to get hold of Ezekiel before the Methodists or the born-agains.
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I detect a hint of I - told - you - so smugness about some of the gloomy advance commentary on Copenhagen.
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Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged.
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Amid the gasps from the audience, the senators' faces drained of smugness.
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You know, the all too familiar signs of smugness, ingratiating habits, or simply the false earnestness and self-satisfaction associated with a testosterone-powered toady.
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This film has not a trace of smugness, or the superiority of moral virtue which is blind to reality.
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I would like to see less complacency over crime levels in the area and less smugness on the local environment.
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I love that last piccy – knackered with a certain – deserved – smugness [and you don't have many opportunities to say that]
The big day
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Occasionally men now married, and living dully content in the prim suburban smugness of Pelham or New Rochelle, boasted of past friendship with her, wagging their heads doggishly.
Gigolo
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Audiences may tire of the early smugness, which is exemplified by the lead character.
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In addition, those accustomed to rubbing shoulders with the political elites -- which oppose PR, as a rule -- come to take on the same aura of smugness and unassailability.
Archive 2009-05-01
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Usually records of this sort are unbearably cutesy or too steeped in ironic smugness to be enjoyable.
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I'm no fan of Bill O'Reilly, whose arrogance and smugness appear to be genuine unlike Rush Limbaugh's braggadocio, which is just schtick.
BatesLine: March 2005 Archives
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There is no smugness quite like the smugness of the social smoker.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smugness is reinforced not just by his history as the entitled scion of one of America's aristocratic dynasties, but also by his conviction that his every action is blessed from on high.
Political Waves
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The continental land mass is made up of the smugness of expatriatism which is a very thin layer of topsoil over exile.
Yatima » 2008 » December
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The self-satisfaction and smugness of the text is toe-curling and its frequent sickening doses of sentimentality are like being forced-fed chopped liver with chicken fat.
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A certain visible smugness on the bobbing bearded face made clear that this was a protest.
Times, Sunday Times
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Watching it, I found myself quietly appalled by the smugness, condescension and bogus rhetoric on display.
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His smugness was rooted in the sense that his retreat to the countryside was part of a great cultural project.
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FOR the past couple of years many Latin American political leaders have been able to contemplate the world with a certain smugness.
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The financial savings over car ownership are considerable and the smugness value incalculable.
Times, Sunday Times
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Moretti handles the material with considerable grace and skill, though the smugness and solipsism of his screen persona occasionally grates.
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He replaces Moore's smugness with a self-deprecating approach.
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But when you look back and picture the nasty close-mouthed eye-darting simpering smugness of this film's hero and the behavior of everyone else in the film I defy you to find one moment of grace except perhaps when lawyer Rashida Jones tells it like it is to her client.
Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Social Network - Much Ado about Nothing
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There is no room whatever for smugness or self-satisfaction on their part.
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So Cordelia realized how pointless their long one-sided conversations were, Kerowyn thought with the slightest air of smugness.
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What really galls me about the film is its smugness about its supposed historical knowledge.
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Ah, the everlasting smugness of people!
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I despise snobbery, smugness and complacency.
Times, Sunday Times
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A man who had oozed smugness - a cokehead - a conspiracy theorist with paranoid tendencies.
THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
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He has a self-assured manner that borders on smugness, and his deep voice fills the sanctuary authoritatively as he emphatically delivers his sermon.
American Grace
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In addition, those accustomed to rubbing shoulders with the political elites--which oppose PR, as a rule--come to take on the same aura of smugness and unassailability.
Standing aloof in giant ignorance
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Nobody should have the smugness to lecture people on the way they use their funds.
Times, Sunday Times
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And yet it is not the blatant commercialism that bothers me; it's the inherent smugness of this bag.
Times, Sunday Times
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I abhor smugness, passivity, caste system. write with recent photo.
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I don't get angry very often, but I got incandescent with rage at their attitude and the smugness of it.
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Nobody should have the smugness to lecture people on the way they use their funds.
Times, Sunday Times
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British tennis continues in its closed feedback loop of smugness and failure.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was with a certain degree of self-confessed smugness that I looked out as the blustery wind swept around headquarters and the ordinary plebs tried to wrap up against the elements.
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The cuddy will almost certainly win, but you might find yourself punching the smugness off the sponsor's/owner's face and spending a night in the cells, as happened to an unfortunate friend of mine.
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Nobody should have the smugness to lecture people on the way they use their funds.
Times, Sunday Times
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Oh I would never have guessed, I thought, brimming over with smugness.
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I despise snobbery, smugness and complacency.
Times, Sunday Times
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The smugness is reinforced not just by his history as the entitled scion of one of America's aristocratic dynasties but also by his conviction that his every action is blessed from on high. what he has learned from his time in office, he replied: "I've learned that God is good.
BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS
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Perhaps the most astonishing thing about this astonishing story is the smugness of its tone.
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The smugness is reinforced not just by his history as the entitled scion of one of America's aristocratic dynasties but also by his conviction that his every action is blessed from on high.
Progressive Bloggers
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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
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Especially when O'Reilly is on, they're responding to brilliant TV, and if you ever rolled your eyes at Walter Cronkite's plummy version of papal infallibility, you can appreciate why O'Reilly's barroom contempt for traditional newscasts 'smugness has its appeal, even if you know his pretense that their bias is flamingly liberal, rather than blandly institutional, is a crock.
The Murdoch Touch
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Only later was my smugness undercut by the notion that the fly, dropping slowly through the water, could be mistaken by an artless fish for a hatchery pellet.
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And because we have not lost a war since Vietnam, there's a reluctance, a smugness, an arrogance , that works against the willingness to try to experiment to change.
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There's nothing quite so memorable on the nine tracks of "Summer of Hate," unless you count the title refrain of "I Wanna Kill," which drips with too much smugness to feel like a threat.
Cat dirt sez "crime pay$"
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What is harder to change are institutional smugness and self-regard.
