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Example sentences for: smarmy

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The tone is uneven: Dunne jerks from moralistic pronouncements on O.J.'s guilt to smarmy name-dropping with the ease of an evangelical hack.
Will deep-core driller Bruce Willis murder smarmy sidekick Ben Affleck when he discovers the lout in bed with his dishy daughter (Liv Tyler)?
But this time he was able to be critical of Bill Bradley without coming off as smarmy or hectoring.
Lord of the Washington Post calls the book "a smarmy, distasteful document in which Gaines fawns over the rich and powerful and attacks the weak and the dead."
Primary Colors rejects the smarmy populist demagoguery of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington . Instead, it shows how politics is about choosing between imperfect, morally compromising options.