smugness
IPA: smˈʌgnʌs
noun
- (uncountable) The state or quality of being smug.
- (countable) The result or product of being smug.
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Examples of "smugness" in Sentences
- Mike Arrington: “Google smugness is at an all time high.”
- Such smugness is in fact common among many cultural revolutions.
- I think other than that the smugness is just about equal between the two.
- I almost would avoid a term like ignorance, because it implies a certain smugness on the part of the person using it.
- But my motivation was “a good deed for the day” and my partner in smugness on this occasion, was mum whose ex Fleetline.
- Kristina Graber, of Three Rivers, Calif., wrote, As a hybrid-vehicle owner, I have come to recognize a certain smugness hybrid ownership brings.
- Smugness is, as you note, never an attractive trait -- whether or not the smugness is justified, and whether or not the source is entirely flawless.
- This is what preserves the shentong view from nihilism, and from a certain smugness bred of holding the ultimate philosophical joker up your sleeve.
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