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

It also explains his slight smugness when informing the media that, after stating they were no good at all, their current league performances suggest the critics were wrong.

From BBC • Jan. 29, 2025

“Looking back on it, my smugness was disgusting. I can’t imagine he read it & if he did, I’m sure he didn’t care but still, I wish I had found a way to apologize.”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 29, 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

He could sense her smugness as she slithered back to his desk, and he had to bite down on the corners of his mouth to kill his laughter.

From "Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher" by Bruce Coville