smugness
Example Sentences
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The smugness, arrogance and hubris in this city is so thick you could cut it with a knife.
From MarketWatch • May 15, 2026
Entertainment Weekly's Maureen Lee Lenker described it as "an exercise in cinematic smugness".
From BBC • Oct. 18, 2024
To judge by his body of work, he’s not particularly smart, or funny, or insightful; he evinces the milky smugness of the bully’s dumb henchman in some lame 1980s slobs-vs.-snobs comedy.
From Slate • Jun. 30, 2023
Among the upstart Skrulls, Ben-Adir conveys the cockiness of a young firebrand, peppered with the smugness of a classic thriller villain.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 20, 2023
There was Andrew, smiling nervously, but with a righteous smugness in his expression too.
From "The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage" by Philip Pullman
