smug
IPA: smˈʌg
noun
- (obsolete, Anglo-Chinese) The smuggling trade.
verb
- (obsolete, transitive) To make smug, or spruce.
- (obsolete, transitive, slang) To seize; to confiscate.
- (obsolete, transitive, slang) To hush up.
adjective
- Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
- Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
- (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
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Examples of "smug" in Sentences
- But smug is smug, and what can I say – I like to call out the smug at times.
- There it will lay, because while smug is annoying, it's not THAT big a deal.
- The kind old world spins on, and the bourgeois masters clip their coupons in smug complacency.
- You are right that we are in a phoney war now though and being to smug is probably not a good idea
- Every time Mr. Gogan saw me smile at a customer, he seemed so pleased with himself I worried that his face might freeze in an expression of smug exhilaration.
- The same may be said of ‘sconce’, in this sense at least; of ‘nowl’ or ‘noll’, which Wiclif uses; of ‘slops’ for trousers (Marlowe’s _Lucan_); of ‘cocksure’ (Rogers), of ‘smug’, which once meant no more than adorned (“the _smug_ bridegroom”, Shakespeare).
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