How To Use Smarmy In A Sentence
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He was more dewy than smarmy - self-satisfied yet eager to please.
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Year in year out, hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe, those silly smarmy marmy waves.
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Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
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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
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Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.
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Pretty, sweet, charming and as far from the slick, besuited, smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected.
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This is not just a smarmy pep talk but an unflinching discussion of real angst and a real adjustment process.
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The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking, handholding, smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.
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A smarmy radio station Director considers himself positively brilliant by getting rid of a troublesome author through insincere flattery.
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The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
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Moronic progs might someday come to realize that pandering to progs is not going “to win friends and influence people” … I think GWB learned that lesson when Daddy made a tax increase deal with that smarmy former Speaker of the House, Tom Foley (D-WA) … THAT two-faced liar showed that progs could not be trusted when their lips were moving ….
Think Progress » Bolten’s First Act As Chief of Staff Is To Defend Rumsfeld
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Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress.
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Yes, he's a smarmy know-it-all with the personality of a hall monitor, the kind of guy everyone hides from at a Christmas party.
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Some people might find it a little smarmy but it's very funny about publishing, agents and publicists.
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Oh, yeah?Yeah, I wonder why?What could that smarmy letch possibly want?
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Nice to meet you," he said in a voice that recalled the smarmy tone of Eddie Haskell complimenting June Cleaver on her fetching outfit.
My Drifter Doppelganger
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Smart and sassy becomes smarmy and crass at the touch of the middlebrow.
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We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
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Marc's smarmy false congratulations are another reminder to Josie of his ability to destroy her bliss.
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In those days, he seemed like a smarmy dumb American, but he's grown into the best actor of his generation.
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Reconnecting with this sticky-fingered siren becomes Jason's new vocation and obsession, though he's often distracted by sparring with a smarmy boss SNL's Chris Parnell, very funny in the first few episodes and hanging with a gaggle of aggressively trendy friends, who give the Happy Endings cast a run for their money in name-dropping cultural references.
Thursday's TV: Sweeps Begin, and MTV Loses Its Pants
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Flanking him was the smarmy art dealer Vincent Faunce and my cousin Alistair.
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KATZ: Well, we look at folks part of the felt family and the word smarmy comes into play.
CNN Transcript Jun 2, 2005
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Some people said that he was smarmy but he wasn't at all.
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Let's face it, we smarmy and sarky Brits will throw in a bit of ironic drollery at the drop of a hat.
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Most of it, however, sounds like last night's carnival, a smarmy brand of entertainment, too self satisfied to show real soul.
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We spend much of our time sorting truth from the web of myths spun about fracking by fast talking landsmen, smarmy CEOs, and federal regulators.
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.: The Fracking Industry's War On The New York Times -- And The Truth
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KKKarl rove is so crooked he has to screw his pants on. dumbya†™ s smarmy school marm wife murdered her highschool boyfriend. dumbya is a deserter. dumbya was AWOL. dumbya is STUPID. dumby will be impeached. get a clue and go away.
Think Progress » McClellan: Everyone in “the White House Has Been Cooperating Fully With The Special Counsel”
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Watch out for that extraordinary middle section, as Julie takes over the operatic role - and watch also for a rather smarmy peck on the shoulder at the end.
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They are little better than the smarmy, devious, dishonest and selfish Europeans.
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He comes across as a real enthusiast, almost a sports-casting throwback, rather than one of those slick and smarmy identikit broadcasters who seem to dominate modern television and radio.
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While fans of courtroom drama and reality TV will undoubtedly eat this series up, I can't say that I especially enjoyed this wallow through the smarmy world of crime and punishment.
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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
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He has almost no chance of winning my vote, out of principle more than anything else, however he's a good political performer, if a little smarmy.
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This kind of smarmy O-bomb-A cheerleading bullshit needs to be called out every time it appears.
Hillary Ad: Change Comes With Experience
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Actually, Hannity always looks a little smarmy, which is one reason he's so irritating, but this is fine.
Hot Air » Top Picks
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And yeah the characters can be annoying sometimes, but they're not nearly as smarmy as most other sitcoms, so it's ahead by default.
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Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress.
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He is best known as the smarmy Psychologist in “Silence of the Lambs.”
An Acting Lesson That Teaches You to Write Well
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Perchance he/she (I really felt it was a smarmy male.) didn't know 'ironical' was a real word in much the same way folks confuse the "irregardlessness" of it all?
No, i have time
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There are more whiskeys on the glass shelves than you'll find in most distilleries and the staff are charming without being smarmy.
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Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters.
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I agree with Lois - Not only has no poet ever seen the kind of money James Patterson makes, there's also that smarmy tone Amanda Urban uses: when she says "some poet" she makes poets sound like something you step in accidentally on the sidewalk.
J.K. Rowling wishes they paid by the word.
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And when some smarmy clueless sicko is watching you do this while asking you why it takes so long to count some pills and put them in a bottle, I can imagine the veins popping out of the pharmacist’s head now.
The new pill bottle
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We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
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How did a silly article by a smarmy TV presenter whom not very many people take seriously come to dominate the news?
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Congress routinely adopts policies that cater to special interests, which are then justified by the sort of smarmy, fact-free spin that the comedian Stephen Colbert has labeled "truthiness."
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Something about his smarmy attitude makes me want to shake him so hard his collarbone breaks.
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Can I noninate George Will for a Nobel prize in smarmy?
Think Progress » George Will mocks Krugman’s Nobel Prize: It’s ‘in economics, not in practical Washington wisdom.’
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Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress.
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DYNAMITE: The term applies to TNT's bittersweet Men of a Certain Age, continuing its terrific second season, but not so much to the instantly tiresome new legal dramedy Franklin & Bash, which implodes in the belief that aggressive quirkiness, smarmy frat-boy sexual innuendo and a "suits are douches" philosophy will endear its Peter Pan protagonists to a wide audience.
Matt's TV Week in Review
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She was trying to be friendly, but she just seemed smarmy and insincere.
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At the blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future.
Yakkety-Yak
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Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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No one likes a smarmy adulator.
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He was very intelligent, he came from Wales expecting to make something of himself... but he wasn't smarmy enough for the City.
LOST CHILDREN
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Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied.
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(However, I am refusing to use the too-smarmy spelling of "vampyre" and "vyrus" that permeates the book.)
REVIEW: Already Dead by Charlie Huston
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Owen Wilson has a smarmy-cool, utterly natural screen persona of smiles, cheeky ad-libs and ironically understated wisecracks.
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Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough, and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever.
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You quote me correctly to say, Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess ...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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I did not want to do this and it makes me feel kind of smarmy but you leave me no choice.
Clinton: My Dad Taught Me How To Shoot
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Ryan's comfortably nomadic existence is upset when his smarmy boss, Craig (Jason Bateman), hires the freshly minted Natalie (Anna Kendrick) and institutes her plan to "revolutionize" the business by terminating employees via the Internet.
Timely 'Up in the Air' rises to challenge with humor, heart
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At the same time, though, when I read the account in Figaro, it doesn't mention Sarkozy blowing up or anything, so perhaps the French just took it as a bit of smarmy American brownnosing of a global elder statesman or something.
Does Obama not know who's president of France? Or is he intentionally insulting Sarkozy?
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Maybe smarmy snark is an ethnic trait that you possess.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?
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smarmy self-importance
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Actually, I suspect Skinner would be more interesting on his own, when not playing half of a smarmy double-act.
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Flanking him was the smarmy art dealer Vincent Faunce and my cousin Alistair.
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I saw it live - smarmy Shep was upset because the anchorette had interviewed Republican Christie without doing the same for 'rat Corzine - of course he himself had just violated the
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Citing a "smarmy" letter that Washington wrote in 1757, bemoaning his lot to the commander in chief, Lord Loudoun, Mr. Clary highlights some especially outspoken, self-pitying and "whining" comments.
War in the Wilderness
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The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
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Now at the top of the local politics food chain, Adams 'weaknesses are revealed, and the revelation is a yawner: Adams is, in fact, a mediocre leader who's finding out that the smarmy platitudes are no longer sufficient, and cannot replace leadership, real ethics, and courageous judgement.
Tick, tick, tick (Jack Bog's Blog)
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Meet Tony, smarmy chick-magnet, Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual.
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Of course it is needless to say this was dressed up with faux-creative writing skills, accompanied by the kind of smarmy posturing and ad hominems that so frequently characterizes the attacks from “the left”.
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He was very intelligent, he came from Wales expecting to make something of himself... but he wasn't smarmy enough for the City.
LOST CHILDREN
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Whitehead appears as a smarmy stand-up comic without the charisma or patter to carry off his narrative duties.
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He kissed my hand at the end of the evening - in a very courtly and gentlemanly way, not like a smarmy guy making a move.
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You need the reader to understand at a glance that some character is supposed to be an intimidating badass, or a provincial boor, or a smarmy selfish jerk, or a naive idealist, or an uptight bluenose, the quickest way to do this is by cuing the reader by invoking some stereotype complex that includes these traits.
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