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Example sentences for: smugness

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

She condemns America's moral decline with the smugness of a Charlton Heston, but her narcissism and button pushing skills give the early Madonna a run for her money.
Q's warm sentimentality is really smugness.
Though it has flaws (Egoyan's decision to romanticize the father-daughter incest blunted the force of the ending), The Sweet Hereafter has none of the insufferable smugness found in so much indie film in this Sundance era.
However--and you may choose to call me a smug foreigner who is also sensitive to "smugness" on the part of the superpower--I thought it self-congratulatory, ill-considered, and decidedly anecdotal.
Matthew Broderick is the genial teacher who becomes irritated with Reese's smugness and tries to rig the election.