How To Use Smug In A Sentence

Some smugglers even use wedding cars and funeral hearses as cover.
He could spot hypocrisy, pomposity, smugness, snobbery, tomfoolery and turpitude from miles away.
The drug smugglers used an assortment of inventive packaging to hide their illegal shipments.
So long as there is a demand for the produce, illegal excavations and the smuggling of antiquities will continue.
When one was obtained it had to be smuggled past the camp guards, then passed to one of our number who was able to translate the news.

They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
Oil was being smuggled illegally out of the country. Times, Sunday Times
Naturally, I was appalled to discover that Knog's entire product line is simply a cheap ruse to smuggle sapphist erotica into America. Conspiracy By Mail: The Hidden Dangers of Online Bicycle Retail
Feel smug about that if you wish. Times, Sunday Times
On Friday Hall faces trial on charges of smuggling drugs. Times, Sunday Times
Today there's an apple, a smug looking egg teed up in a cup.
If the Tigers indeed wanted to regroup, which is what Sri Lanka fears the most, they would then invest any amount of money to have their remaining battle hardened cadres smuggled out of these camps. Kottu
It asked them to choose between boardshorts and swimming briefs, more commonly known as budgie smugglers. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
He said that he had bought it for 20 euros to use as a doorstop or ornament, but the authorities said it was marble and accused him of smuggling antiquities.
Robbie does come across as the smuggest ass on the planet. Robbie Williams | My[confined]Space
Two British flyers are awaiting trial on smuggling charges. Times, Sunday Times
The contact boat was only two miles from Grafton, and a chase ensued, with the suspected smugglers being illuminated by powerful searchlights.
Swanberg plays an amusingly hatable character with a smug disregard for indie flicks.
A JAILED drugs kingpin maintained his illicit empire from inside a prison cell with a smuggled mobile phone. The Sun
In reality, she was a former drug addict who spent three years behind bars for smuggling drugs into jail. The Sun
Memmer deh simalurlee teemed picher ware deh kitteh on big pillau lukked so PLEEZED an smug, an goggie was trayin make bezt ub it wid hed on liddel pillau. Stop winning u fit purrfectly - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
The four orang-utans and two gibbons were returned to Indonesia after being illegally poached and smuggled to Japan eight months ago.
Although I've only recently stuck my toe in the fast-moving blogstream, I've been a fan -- and an advocate -- ever since bloggers took the Trent Lott/Strom Thurmond story, ran with it, and helped turn the smug Senate majority leaderinto the penitent former Senate majority leader, a bit of bloody political chum floating in a tank of hungry sharks. April 2004
Using the Smuggler as an example, you could choose to configure the cowboy opportunist as a "scoundrel" - a short-range stealth rogue, skilled in medicine - or a Eurogamer
Women as perpetrators include nearly 200 women tried as spies, smugglers, couriers, and saboteurs conducting such activity as cutting telegraph wire.
What other character do you know of who is searingly brilliant, stunningly engaging in his rat-a-tat-tat conversational wizardly, totally and even smugly tactless and rude - and still adored? Bella DePaulo: Facebook Movie: The Arrogance of Achievement vs. the Arrogance of Inheritance
The news also made me feel rather smug. Times, Sunday Times
Ramuntcho is a Basque smuggler and player of pelota, the Basque national game, and the story concerns his adventures and those of his fiancée, Gracieuse.
A smile that could have been ripped from the Cheshire cats face spread across Hilary's smug phizog.
Revenue was also busy cracking illegal cigarette and tobacco smuggling.
I would relish the opportunity, as I placed my cross on the ballot paper, to think of wiping the permanently smug, self-satisfied smirk from his arrogant, squirrel-cheeked, toffee-nosed features.
His smugness about the whole affair made us see red.
The cat with its grey coat seemed to have been stupid enough to smuggle into my inner wears.
So I was distinctly underwhelmed when a colleague smugly confided that he was a dream date ‘because he cook’.
According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines.
But Luttrell's Tower sleeps four; Pounds 1,082/Pounds 2,768, beside the Solent at Eagleshurst, is exceptional: an outlandish Georgian folly with pink chimneypot tower and its own "smugglers' tunnel" down to the shore. Archive 2007-04-01
Hal is indeed shallow, smug, chubby, in love with himself and in thrall to his late clergyman father's last piece of advice that he should chase only the hottest totty.
Just as it's right that we avoid smug complacency, so we shouldn't tumble into despondency and despair.
Illegal logging and timber smuggling influenced the policy and caused price rises for wood domestically.
The clatter was a relief to Carol after months of smug houses. Main Street
If any English smuggler found himself roughly handled as a result, he had only himself to blame. THE SCOTTISH ENLIGHTENMENT: The Scots' Invention of the Modern World
The pride she feels in what she is doing, while understandable, is borderline smug.
The bill refers to so-called non-state actors - a term encompassing terrorist groups, people-smugglers and transnational crime. The Australian | News |
Some people made a lot of money smuggling refugees, and they were pretty ruthless with anyone they regarded as competition. WALL GAMES
Eminent French aviator ordered to the ground and sent home for conspiring with unsavory babu to smuggle undesirables to Katmandu, which is forbidden territory! Jimgrim
The column is an exercise in smug attitudinizing that makes clear its writer thinks slightly higher of himself than the evidence warrants.
In spite of Pelican Bay's harsh conditions, authorities allege Castellanos continued to command gang members on the street through edicts smuggled out of prison on tiny scraps of paper known as "kites. The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
While it can all seem a bit smug to some, it is a more democratic scene than in decades past, though a fascination with the gentry remains. Times, Sunday Times
These charges range from weapons smuggling to illegally wiring large sums of money into the United States.
Although Damascus insists that its forces are conducting an antismuggling operation, the Lebanese government is eyeing the moves with unease, believing that the unusual scale of the deployment has more to do with tensions between the two countries over recent sectarian clashes in northern Lebanon. Political Resonance
If this is the worst trouble we see all tournament, I shall have to fight the feelings of smugness very hard indeedy.
Smugglers made it the subject of a number of ghost stories, including the common one of a phantom black coach drawn by four headless black horses.
Guerrieri is a defense counselor in Bari, Italy, and he's asked to work on the appeal of a man named Fabio Paolicelli, accused of drug smuggling. Reasonable Doubts -- Gianrico Carofiglio (Trans. Howard Curtis)
We sauntered out of the house, feeling fairly smug as we'd got organised quite quickly for a change.
Sparkling jewellery smuggled through dark alleyways and fur coats stitched in countries where fur was never needed.
To get past the border guards, immigrants from Mexico hire smugglers - called coyotes - to guide them through crossing points.
They may feel smug, but that's because they as a group are as useful as a racehorse with callipers and can't quite grasp the importance of actual fact, nor how their legislation is harmful. Archive 2007-01-01
His arrest and ultimate acquittal on cocaine smuggling charges made headlines in the mid-1980s.
Agents countered all such efforts aggressively, hiking through the jungles in search of smuggling trails and cultivating local residents as informers.
While others biked in the early morning cold downtown, I could smugly sip my coffee and watch raindrops hitting the window. Heidi Dietrich: Biking to the Gates Foundation
Thus do liberals or progressives or whatever we're supposed to be calling ourselves live up to our reputation for using lofty, smug, self-referential and exclusionist language rather than speaking in real, concrete terms. We Need People Who Ride Bikes, Not Cyclists « PubliCola
It's a saying that makes women livid with frustration and anger at the unfairness of life, while men can remain smugly secure in their bald spot.
While I'm in a bit of a ratty mood, does anybody want to have a guess about which smug London-based website e-mailed me overnight?
He was so fond of a little taste every day that in the winter he smuggled in frozen hunks of it, dropping them on the hearth to thaw.
I was high on morphine with a plate and six screws in my leg when he smuggled a six-pack of real beer into my Salt Lake City hospital room.
An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments.
The occasional humblebrag might fly with your audiences but there's a fine line between sincerity and smugness.
The modern coastguardmen never expect to find such an animal as a smuggler: all contraband business is done by dint of craft and not by daring. The Romance of the Coast
You might be forgiven for thinking that Americans are feeling just a little bit smug. Times, Sunday Times
In fact, gratitude may be the smuggest of sentiments, the world's most selfish act this side of suicide. Tony Greenberg: Gratitude: The Smuggest Sentiment or the World's Second Most Selfish Act?
After crossing the border they were abandoned by coyotes or polleros, the smugglers who transported them into the US.
It is pretty evident that Maoist cadres have been involved into the smuggling cordyceps and other endangered medicinal herbs and regarding this they have also established their own so-called regulative mechanism. Scrutinizing Mr. Yadav's Allegations
According to present law, the authorities can only punish smugglers with small fines.
Among the revelations were the fact that Ibiza's understaffed customs had not made a single arrest for drug smuggling in two years.
Harry talks about the excise men being bamboozled by coffins being carried up the hill and across the moors containing, of course, smuggled booty rather than bodies.
He used a smuggled phone to link the games console to the web. The Sun
Four men were arrested at the scene following the discovery of the cigarettes, which were smuggled into the country in steel girders.
No, let them take some of the money and energy that they use in smuggling explosives into their bowl and use it to bring in food. The Volokh Conspiracy » A Strange Thing About the Controversy Over Jerusalem
To strengthen border security and to combat smuggling, Pakistan is setting up more checkpoints along the border.
Chinese authorities arrest iPad-smuggling 'mules' - Computerworld The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
In the late 1980s, prosecutors spent nearly two years building a case against a geoduck-clam smuggling operation that resulted, Mr. Welch says, in "the largest white-collar fraud case in Northwest history. When Criminals Clam Up
In the middle of the program, he also started demanding kickbacks on the contracts to add to the stream of unmonitored revenue he was already getting from oil smuggling.
MORE than five tons of smuggled elephant tusks worth 6.5million have been destroyed. The Sun
First, McConnell openly criticised the Chancellor's decision to force whisky producers to introduce security seals as protection against counterfeits and smuggling.
The smug buzzword "glamping" merely adds insult to injury. Glamping is not camping
He is right, but his comment is also a bit smug. Times, Sunday Times
First, smugglers and excisemen battle it out on the sea wall, with horses galloping, cannons blazing and much ketchup spilt. Times, Sunday Times
The guns were smuggled across the border.
Even tighter restrictions were imposed on Operation Relex, which interdicted people-smuggling operations on Australia's northern borders.
On one hand there is pressure on them not to be seen to be dealing with convicted smugglers. The Times Literary Supplement
Gwyneth strode to the head of the stairs and with a smug smile on her lips gazed down upon them as Maida scuttled behind her daughter's skirts. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
The seashore inhabitants gained some recompense by resorting to wrecking, a tradition which lasted well into the 19th cent., and by their own privateering and smuggling.
However, thanks to smuggling, piracy, and trade with the New World, England was able to thwart Napoleon's plan.
I loathe the idea of braggart look-at-how-we-give-to-the-poor stuff, but the object is to get Christmas gifts in some sort of perspective....would value other suggestions from blog readers onm how to do something to counter gross Christmas greed/consumerism without looking Cromwellian or smug. Auntie joanna writes
Now the governments of the UK and Jamaica are spending £2m on a crackdown on cocaine smuggling.
I glanced down and Charlie, Zachery's black and white tomcat, was sitting beside his bowl, a smug and fairly self satisfied look on his face.
They were space traders and smugglers, they had refused an offer to join the Federation halfa century earlier, and their record on humanoid rights was abysmal. The Fearful Summons
He's the smuggest, most egotistical waste of airtime currently working. Times, Sunday Times
The General and his cronies are now awaiting trial for drug-smuggling.
Since 2007, the Palestinian Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) controls the Gaza Strip, Israel to stop arms smuggling on the grounds of the region to implement strict blockade.
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
And when he doesn't look smug he can seem sneering. Times, Sunday Times
Beginners offsets its depressing premise with arty flourishes that veer close to smug. The Sun
This 16 th-century coaching inn, in the characterful market town of Pickering, once harboured smugglers moving salt from Whitby to York.
He winked at me and I wanted to knock out a few teeth in that smug smile he flashed at me.
So he agreed to smuggle a letter into London '. Times, Sunday Times
Walking uptown through the frosted streets last Thursday I felt a smug satisfaction with the city and the way that familiar sights seemed transformed by the snow.
Other tracks smuggle in gossamer strands of bebop and cool jazz. Times, Sunday Times
If the economic incentive for smuggling is high enough, nothing will stop it. Matthew Yglesias » The Gaza Tunnels
The CKHCI doesn't account for all of the "Rasta" models smuggled in from The Congo. No Getting Around It: Cycling and Religion Clash Again
Smugly he points out he is not the one in debt.
Hiding a live monkey underneath your blouse and claiming to be pregnant may sound like an amateur attempt at smuggling but American Gypsy Lawson, 29, used that exact method to sneak a drugged rhesus monkey into the US in 2008. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
She deserved her promotion, but I wish she wasn't so damned smug about it.
The mystery remained how the bombers managed to smuggle their explosives on board.
It's unconscionable for the government to do anything for a man who admits to smuggling 135 tons of cocaine into the United States.
Plundering and raiding, pirating and smuggling were the only ways they could survive in this universe…
No wonder the gnome has a smug grin. The Sun
Only at the very western end, where the terrain is mountainous, are the old smuggling routes still open. Times, Sunday Times
He had a proud, smug, smile plastered over his dark face, eyeing Sora knowingly as if he finally got the answer he needed.
As the government's operations grew more sophisticated, so did those of the smugglers, or coyotes.
They know the best ways to smuggle crib sheets, steal exam papers and generally outfox teachers in a bid to gain glowing report cards, whilst doing no real work.
He and Anna's sister Theresa radiate smug perfection like a leak at Sellafield B. `Funny you should ask,' says Anna. LOVE YOU MADLY
It flows to Smuggler's Rock," said Andy, "but we swing landwards before we get there, to the Cliff of Birds. The Adventurous Four Again
By some means, and with friendly assistance (perhaps his mother's), he succeeded in smuggling into the garret a spinet, which is a kind of piano. Music Talks with Children
During a House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing, Barton smugly posed a "stumper" to Energy Secretary Steve Chu: MNpublius.com
We have 1984 today; even if not in the form described by Orwell; since newspeak is replaced by the patois of the gang leaders and international body smugglers.
Lucian's family had a history of smuggling and trading contraband items when taxes got too high for people's tolerance.
They are also actively involved in smuggling and looting high-voltage power cables.
I saw all of the Harry Potter movies," he smugly replies. Animation Nation
Yet he and his family claim they have evidence that he was duped into joining a heroin smuggling role which they cannot persuade a Bangkok court to hear.
If you added to it the adventures of the Famous Five as they tackled smugglers and pirates and thieves, and the magical escapades of brownies and elves, you get something close to Harry Potter.
We learn that this job involves acting as a human storage device to smuggle cocaine into America.
No wonder the gnome has a smug grin. The Sun
Smuggling is an old and honoured profession in every port town I've ever visited. THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
And so it proves, when he, the informant and the smugglers unwittingly walk straight into a police ambush. The Sun
The rosy tint in their cheeks is not from tending the land; it comes from being smug and self-satisfied. Times, Sunday Times
This sort of smug, self-righteous moralising is exactly what the original American student was speaking out against.
Smuggling can potentially provide fissile material for nuclear weapons or a wider range of radioactive materials for use in ‘dirty bombs’.
All of you that take the time to be so pompous and detestably smug about this and the like are inept . Think Progress » Ted Haggard on homosexuality:
And so it proves, when he, the informant and the smugglers unwittingly walk straight into a police ambush. The Sun
Killing elephants on a large scale and smuggling their tusks long distances is expensive, made worthwhile by the high price for ivory. Times, Sunday Times
By indulging in metaphorical breast-beating, he conveyed a smug sense that the country can do no wrong.
And one of the things we were most looking forward to in the Dallas movie – because God knows it wasn't the prospect of staring at John Travolta's big smug moonface for two hours – was the inclusion of Jennifer Lopez as Sue Ellen Ewing. JLo: Misunderstood
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
The change is expected to dramatically refashion a multibillion-dollar contest to build a new class of shore-hugging warships that will specialize in missions like combating piracy or chasing drug smugglers. Navy May Split Ship Purchase Between Lockheed, Austal
Face an unruly ocean with a surfboard and see how smug your smile is then. Times, Sunday Times
While gleefully announcing that Chomsky's website has (gasp) a copyright warning, Schweizer smugly points out that the site "does give you the opportunity to 'sublicense' the material ["]. Slackbastard
Smugglers commonly fool would-be asylees, taking their money and disappearing or simply failing to help them cross Turkey's borders.
The endearing bathos and crassness of Laurel found an admirable foil in the elephantine smugness of his rotund partner.
I do appreciate cultural artifacts, however, my appreciation includes a recognition of irony, and I mean irony in its strictest sense, not as a malapropism for sarcasm or smug insincerity.
And I started a smuggling unit to go after coyotes here.
Some countries have ever fiercer antismuggling laws. The Fruit Hunters
It was the smeared red lipstick, smugged black eye makeup and the sweaty looking tassle hair that made her look like she had been "doing something" that I questioned that being said if the kid didn't do something to cool their heels Disney would work that kid to death. Miley Cyrus: The Truth Is Unbearable. A Reasonable Perspective. TheShellyPalmerReport
A twelfth person was charged last night over the alleged plot to smuggle bomb components on to aircraft and assemble explosive devices. Times, Sunday Times
Because of Vesper's diligent work and Milo's testimony, Caesare was behind bars facing an airtight case against him for smuggling arms, drugs, and mul - tiple violations of the RICO act. Second Skin
Frequently, the motive has been looting, with artefacts being smuggled out of the region. Times, Sunday Times
His obituary pointed out that he used his post to enrich himself through a web of smuggling and warped business deals.
Two British flyers are awaiting trial on smuggling charges. Times, Sunday Times
New Russian is a euphemism for black-market pimp, smuggler, gangster, any tough young man with capitalist cash, and there are lots of them.
Drug - smuggling is a serious crime.
It might be thought that I am aloof, smug, emotionally cool or that I believe that I am better than anyone else.
He claimed South African mercenaries were training rebels in Kindu to use the smuggled weapons, and demanded an international probe into the matter.
To Pay Smuggling Fines Two of Canada's largest tobacco companies agreed to pay more than one billion Canadian dollars ($980 million) in fines and pledges to antismuggling efforts over the next 10 to 15 years, after pleading guilty to customs charges related to contraband cigarettes and smuggling. Canadian Tobacco Firms
Trifling articles, like eggs or radishes, might be smuggled into a brown wicker basket with covers; but it did not consort with elegance to "trapes" home with anything that looked inconvenient or had legs sticking out of it. The Imperialist
He wants to reform the impossibly cliquey party, long ruled by smug dotards who have turned political nest-feathering into a national art-form to rival ikebana and origami.
They admit they have no idea how many illegal crossings are made by smugglers. Times, Sunday Times
The inspection is aimed at helping curb smuggling and undervaluation practices and to nab corrupt customs officials.
The mandatory detention requirements that took effect this year, a dramatic increase in long-term incarcerated aliens, and the rise in sophisticated smuggling operations have placed unexpected burdens on INS detention capabilities. President Asks Congress For Embassy Security Funding
At night I would smuggle him into my bed - place, and we would whisper together.
The sleepy Celestial seasons had gone flowering their way to paradise, and the opium-smuggler and her sycee silver lay safe and swallowed in ribs and jowl of quicksand. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873
Of course, when it comes to smuggling things in, the boobhead always has the advantage over the screw.
There's a lot of smuggling across this frontier.
Shah smuggled a video camera into Afghanistan to secretly film the reality of life under the Taliban.
In Sundar Nagari it could be the part life story of a ruling smuggler, In Cuffe parade it could be a Bhai. Sold to the basest emotions
My mother gamely tolerated them, along with the odd praying mantis on the net curtains, smuggled home on the Train Bleu from Menton, where my French pen-friend, Jean-Franois, lived. Wildwood
Don't be surprised if gagsters manage to smuggle atomic bombs and crashing aircraft into the story.
All those smug marrieds didn't have breakthroughs in therapy or suddenly change their patterns: They just went to the right party, or agreed to that one final blind date.
Authorities often pursue smugglers ' ships for two days, along the many islands that run from Sakhalin Oblast to Japan.
They operated a drug-smuggling business under the guise of an employment agency.
You can rent a surrey or even a Harley Davidson, or tour the Smuggler Mine, which gave up the world's largest silver nugget - 1840 pounds - back in 1894.
But having done so -- even with complete ineptitude -- think how smug he could feel after it all blew up, knowing that careful drafting of the offering document by his $1,260-an-hour lawyer had boilerplated the risk, thus keeping him out of prison. Undefined
With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.
This smug attempt at honesty set more than a few teeth on edge. The Sun
Who can name the old hindi movie in which Deepti Naval wins the heart of FIL, Uttpal Dutt with bought out kachoris smuggled into the kitchen by a ever naughty Saeed Jaffery, saying that the bahu rani has made them? Pyaz Ki Kachori
How can petite-bodied Philippe Petit, a hyperactive Frenchman with freckles and carrot-top hair, possibly carry a film that does, in fact, involve illegal smuggling, the bypassing of security, and other activities typically confined to scarfaced, tough-guy villains? Current Movie Reviews, Independent Movies - Film Threat
That said, I'm planting the Cone of Smugness firmly on my head to point out two recent spelling errors -- bathyscape should be bathyscaphe, and back when you were talking about randonneurs, you misspelled pretension with a t in the middle instead of an s. Worst of Craigslist: Delicious, Savory Bike Love
Their fans were getting a bit too smug for my liking. Times, Sunday Times
A prisoner kept an international drug smuggling operation going from his cell using a smuggled mobile phone. Times, Sunday Times
You frequently encounter a stereotype of Americans as self-satisfied and smug.
Meanwhile Birkin slowly uncovers the wall-painting, which shows the righteous trooping smugly off to heaven while the damned dive towards hell.
As if concerned that his rants may appear too smug or self-important, he tempers them with spoonfuls of self-loathing.
She still has her ballerina-thin figure and still paints cherry-red streaks through her chocolate-brown hair; the contrast is as stark as her customers 'paintings, which line the store's entrance hall and make shoppers feel smug about their own art. Toile - French Word-A-Day
The region is renowned for its lucrative smuggling routes and bitter rivalries with neighbouring tribes. Times, Sunday Times
Not cuban seed or the pre-embargo ones either...the smuggled super fresh good stuff for under 5 bucks a cigar. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
At present heroic missions are undertaken by activists who smuggle generic drugs into countries where their sale is prohibited.
Why not pick up a copy of the Sunday Times and read about the smuggest moneybags in Britain?
Rather, the principal smuggling routes appear to be across the Iranian and other southern borders, to the Persian Gulf, where the material might be "warehoused" for a number of years, or privately sold with few questions asked. The Devastation of Iraq's Past
He smuggled in boy's clothes and a man's caplike the one the goaler wore, but just as she was passing the gate all her hair fell down and they called out 'Une aristocrate, une aristocrate.' The Quiet American
Customs officers will be given powers allowing them to board and detain ships suspected of smuggling migrants. Times, Sunday Times
The news agency did not mention the refugees' port of embarkation or whether police authorities detained any crew members from the boat attempting to smuggle the refugees into Australia.

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