smarmy

How To Use smarmy In A Sentence

• He was more dewy than smarmy - self-satisfied yet eager to please.
• Year in year out, hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe, those silly smarmy marmy waves.
• Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
• The movie turns broad and slightly smarmy when it portrays the conventioneers as hapless Babbitts, and overstresses Tim's status as a hick or, worse still, a priss. 'Gnomeo': A Bard's Garden of Delights
• Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.
• Pretty, sweet, charming and as far from the slick, besuited, smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected.
• This is not just a smarmy pep talk but an unflinching discussion of real angst and a real adjustment process.
• The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking, handholding, smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.
• A smarmy radio station Director considers himself positively brilliant by getting rid of a troublesome author through insincere flattery.
• The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.