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Example sentences for: smarmy

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Villains are picked off in order of ascending nastiness--sadistic brutes, followed by smarmy flacks, followed by twisted visionaries in expensive suits.
He's sometimes funny, often smarmy, and always condescending.
As Hillary Clinton toys with a run for Daniel Patrick Moynihan's Senate seat, the main charge leveled against her has nothing to do with her conventional liberal views, her status as a politician's wife, or her smarmy New Age morality.
But this time he was able to be critical of Bill Bradley without coming off as smarmy or hectoring.
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 .)