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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:

smugness, until awakened by the hard-working Californians they complain so much about.
Quoted in the London newspapers, British TV regulators oozed smugness, saying that such frenzied eye-flashing was already forbidden on British screens.
Matthew Broderick is the genial teacher who becomes irritated with Reese's smugness and tries to rig the election.
Michiko Kakutani writes in the New York Times that although Gates "delineates his characters' predicaments with a pitch-perfect ear," the collection suffers when "a certain authorial smugness creeps into the narration," which leaves the reader "feeling superior to his characters, irritated with their solipsistic mind games and self-inflicted wounds."
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.