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Example sentences for: smug

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Coming from the no man's land of Illinois instead of North or South, Lidie represents the realist's take on slavery--in her heart she's against it, but she finds the abolitionists smug, intoxicated by their own abstract words.
The outrage is how smug and empty of insight it is, and how rhapsodic its reviews from people who ought to know better.
Critics remain divided over the Road to Wellville author: Is he a gothic genius or annoyingly smug?
This erratic neophobia is by no means restricted to those blessed and sometimes smug beneficiaries of Received Standard English.
Western pundits, having once placed Japan on a pedestal, now either prefer not to discuss the subject or see Japan's failures mainly as an occasion for smug self-congratulation.