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Example sentences for: smug

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The hairpin turns from farce to melodrama, from satire to bathos, are fresh and deftly navigated, but almost every one of the underlying attitudes is smug and easy: from the corporate flunky named "Brad" to the interchangeable gay neighbors (they're both called "Jim") to the brutally homophobic patriarch next door, an ex-Marine colonel (Chris Cooper) who has reduced his wife (the normally exuberant Allison Janney) to a catatonic mummy and his son, Ricky (Bentley), to a life of subterranean deception.
This might mean George W.'s apparent smirk is merely a forced smile, not a smug or mean or even dishonest one.
I found it so oppressively smug that I had to get up and pace the aisles three or four times, and I'd have bolted if I hadn't been duty bound to stick it out.
It adds, with smug ivory-tower certainty, “The singular is, of course, medium.”
Such things can often raise a chuckle from those who appreciate the incongruity of the item and those who smirk with smug superiority.