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Example sentences for: smarmy

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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."
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).
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 .)
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.