Example sentences for: smug

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

  • Himself is looking dumb and programmed, or is it stiff and smug?

  • Sinatra had been one of the first artists to start his own record label (Reprise, in 1961): This was recognized in the late '70s as proof of his artistic integrity and a kick in the smug face of corporate music.

  • The Indian press has grown a little smug since the collapse of the Seattle trade talks and the victory of the Indian representative in the Miss World competition in London this weekend.

  • Back then, Seattle was as isolated, provincial, insecure, and wet as it is connected, worldly, smug, and wet today.

  • Dissenting, the Washington Post 's Tom Shales calls the show's jabs at yokels "smug and snide."


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