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smugness

[ US /ˈsməɡnəs/ ]
[ UK /smˈʌɡnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

How To Use smugness In A Sentence

  • But when you look back and picture the nasty close-mouthed eye-darting simpering smugness of this film's hero and the behavior of everyone else in the film I defy you to find one moment of grace except perhaps when lawyer Rashida Jones tells it like it is to her client. Nancy Doyle Palmer: The Social Network - Much Ado about Nothing
  • Nobody should have the smugness to lecture people on the way they use their funds. Times, Sunday Times
  • In addition, those accustomed to rubbing shoulders with the political elites--which oppose PR, as a rule--come to take on the same aura of smugness and unassailability. Standing aloof in giant ignorance
  • He has a self-assured manner that borders on smugness, and his deep voice fills the sanctuary authoritatively as he emphatically delivers his sermon. American Grace
  • A man who had oozed smugness - a cokehead - a conspiracy theorist with paranoid tendencies. THE GREENSTONE GRAIL: THE SANGREAL TRILOGY ONE
  • I despise snobbery, smugness and complacency. Times, Sunday Times
  • Ah, the everlasting smugness of people!
  • What really galls me about the film is its smugness about its supposed historical knowledge.
  • So Cordelia realized how pointless their long one-sided conversations were, Kerowyn thought with the slightest air of smugness.
  • There is no room whatever for smugness or self-satisfaction on their part.
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