smarmy
IPA: smˈɑrmi
adjective
- Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious.
- (rare, dated) Unctuous, greasy, as hair from pomade.
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Examples of "smarmy" in Sentences
- The staff was exceptionally smarmy.
- I'm surely not the smarmy one here.
- I can see it in your smarmy little syntax.
- I just don't want to feel like we're smarmy.
- His on air manner was energetic and faintly smarmy.
- First, it strikes me as a touch smarmy and juvenile.
- If you're going to be smarmy, make sure it is relevent.
- Can I noninate George Will for a Nobel prize in smarmy?
- I don't need a smarmy reminder of how to use a dictionary.
- He's sometimes funny, often smarmy, and always condescending.
- I don't mean sentimental in a smarmy way, or that it's a bad thing.
- He is best known as the smarmy Psychologist in “Silence of the Lambs.”
- KATZ: Well, we look at folks part of the felt family and the word smarmy comes into play.
- I did not want to do this and it makes me feel kind of smarmy but you leave me no choice.
- This kind of smarmy O-bomb-A cheerleading bullshit needs to be called out every time it appears.
- Actually, Hannity always looks a little smarmy, which is one reason he's so irritating, but this is fine.
- "Nice to meet you," he said in a voice that recalled the smarmy tone of Eddie Haskell complimenting June Cleaver on her fetching outfit.
- Citing a "smarmy" letter that Washington wrote in 1757, bemoaning his lot to the commander in chief, Lord Loudoun, Mr. Clary highlights some especially outspoken, self-pitying and "whining" comments.
- Of course it is needless to say this was dressed up with faux-creative writing skills, accompanied by the kind of smarmy posturing and ad hominems that so frequently characterizes the attacks from “the left”.