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Example sentences for: smugly

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(Actually, Syd gets it instinctively, another way in which she's smugly annoying.)
When she had finished, the class Brain turned to the questioner and smugly elucidated, “So you see, you're a virgin.”
For example, the new books say that it was Israel, not the Arab states, which held the military advantage in the 1948 war for independence, and that Palestinians left their land not because they smugly assumed Israel would lose the war but because they were afraid or forced out by Israeli soldiers.
Critics say the show, about a Puerto Rican teen gang member and convicted murderer, fails to make its protagonist sympathetic even as it moralizes smugly about racism.
, Lucas dramatizes the interrogation so ineptly that you either have to take Yoda's word that there's something wrong with the boy ("Clouded this boy's future is") or to conclude that Yoda, like us, is moving backward through time and has already seen Episodes 4 through 6. Anakin, he says smugly, has fear in him, and fear leads to anger and anger to the dark side--which would mean, as I interpret it, that only people without fear (i.e.