smug

IPA: smˈʌg

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.

Examples of "smug" in Sentences

His smug attitude bugged her.
Thanks for the smug little comment.
I don't understand the smug attitude.
It is the smug look on the vendor's face.
Its smugness is a corollary of its vacuity.
But the reply is clearly unhelpful and smug.
Always wearing that crown, the king looked smug.
His immediate superior was the smug and buck toothed.
Nancy tells a smug Jake that she will go to the police.
He was ascetic in appearance and, at the same time, ostentatiously smug.
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).