smug
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When I say good, I don’t mean smug or perfect.
From Slate • May 10, 2026
Volker Beck, president of the German-Israeli Society, labelled Steinmeier's comments on the war "grossly inappropriate" and said they displayed a "smug know-it-all attitude".
From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026
Mr. Powell, smirking and smug, tells his life story to a visiting priest who drops by his cell for a last conversation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 19, 2026
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 • Dec. 21, 2025
He stared at me with those dark eyes of his, which somehow, even in this hell, bore some of his smug arrogance.
From "Not Nothing" by Gayle Forman
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The SAT: Words to Capture Tone, List 3
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