Example sentences for: smug

How can you use “smug” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • "Whoopi Goldberg's smug political jokes at the Oscars."

  • The New York Times ' front-page piece, which Today's Papers quotes, refers to the protesters' "sentiments"; the smug "Brainless in Seattle" headline in "TP" betrays a similar willful ostrich-pose.

  • What happens to the piece of paper after that we neither know nor care--having voted and thus earned our right to feel smug all day.

  • 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.

  • 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.


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