smarmy
Example Sentences
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In addition, the artist comes off as smarmy and contentious at times, belying his “holy man” persona and populist vibe.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 18, 2025
Williams wants to impress upon folks that he is an iconoclast, and it comes off as smarmy.
From Salon • Jan. 10, 2025
It starred Coleman as “Buffalo Bill” Bittinger, the smarmy, arrogant, dimwitted daytime talk show host who, unhappy at being relegated to the small-time market of Buffalo, New York, takes it out on everyone around him.
From Seattle Times • May 17, 2024
So why do I call this calming music “avant-garde jazz” and not the smarmy candy known as “smooth jazz”? Simply: smooth jazz is a category.
From New York Times • Jul. 5, 2023
“Put a word in his ear, in that smarmy way of yours. Suggest delicately that a reward might do wonders.”
From "The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm" by Nancy Farmer
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