smug

Example Sentences

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Michael, a long-haired Vietnam-era peacenik as the informed and occasionally smug voice of logic, earned that brand from Archie simply by being.

From Salon

Cubicle dwellers at a Texas software company endure everyday corporate indignities, including paper jams and smug bosses asking if they got the memo about cover sheets for the TPS reports.

From The Wall Street Journal

The boys’ lips trembled, and Veronika flung her arm skyward in smug satisfaction.

From Literature

“I believe the chef has prepared a delicious pie,” the admiral replied with a smug sideways look at Penelope.

From Literature

But where “The Monkey’s” snide sense of humor about its kills quickly grew smug, this time Perkins’ light touch — even during the most frightening moments — gives this slight film just the right proportionality.

From Los Angeles Times