smug

Speech parts

1. smug - Adjective

2. smug - Verb

3. smug - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

To make smug, or spruce.

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America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind. Norman Mailer

Ancestors do not mean so much. The rebel who succeeds generally makes it easier for the posterity that follows him; so these descendants are usually contented and smug and soft. Rebels are made from life, not ancestors. Clarence Darrow

These bastards who run our country are a bunch of conniving, thieving, smug pricks who need to be brought down and removed and replaced with a whole new system that we control. Michael Moore

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive. Colin Firth

Patriotic?” Will looked smug. "I'll tell you what's patriotic,” he said. "In honor of my birthplace, I've the dragon of Wales tattooed on my-. Cassandra Clare

Why do people who are good at families have to be smug and assume it is the only way to live. ... Why can't they be blamed for being bad at promiscuity? Hanif Kureishi

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