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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.
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.
A minority praises Jeremy Irons' portrayal of Humbert Humbert--the middle-age professor obsessed with his adolescent stepdaughter--as sufficiently smarmy, and call the film "rich beyond what anyone could have expected" (Caryn James, the New York Times ). (Read Louis Menand's review in Slate .)
Most responses could be divided into two kinds of contempt: some target snobs who disdain the rabble (the reluctant dentist, the smarmy candidate), others target slobs who are the rabble (passengers in coach, customers at Kmart).
Push is smarmy on every level" (Robert Bianco, USA Today ). Some critics say the show is little more than a vehicle for showing women romping around in leotards and swimsuits.