Smug
adjective
Showing excessive satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
He had a smug look on his face after winning the competition.
Often appears as...
- smug look
- smug expression
Usage tips
Disapproving
adjective
Showing excessive satisfaction with oneself or one's achievements.
He had a smug look on his face after winning the competition.
Often appears as...
- smug look
- smug expression
Usage tips
Disapproving
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Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Smug often implies a negative judgment about someone's self-satisfaction.
His smug attitude after the promotion didn't win him any friends.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Verbal Cues
Smugness is frequently conveyed through non-verbal expressions, such as a smirk.
A smug grin spread across his face as he revealed the secret.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Pejorative
'Smug' usually describes someone's annoying level of self-satisfaction and is rarely a compliment.
She gave a smug reply to their concerns, not realizing she was being insensitive.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Smug often implies a negative judgment about someone's self-satisfaction.
His smug attitude after the promotion didn't win him any friends.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Verbal Cues
Smugness is frequently conveyed through non-verbal expressions, such as a smirk.
A smug grin spread across his face as he revealed the secret.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Pejorative
'Smug' usually describes someone's annoying level of self-satisfaction and is rarely a compliment.
She gave a smug reply to their concerns, not realizing she was being insensitive.
Pro Tip 1/3Negative Nuance
Smug often implies a negative judgment about someone's self-satisfaction.
His smug attitude after the promotion didn't win him any friends.
Pro Tip 2/3Non-Verbal Cues
Smugness is frequently conveyed through non-verbal expressions, such as a smirk.
A smug grin spread across his face as he revealed the secret.
Pro Tip 3/3Often Pejorative
'Smug' usually describes someone's annoying level of self-satisfaction and is rarely a compliment.
She gave a smug reply to their concerns, not realizing she was being insensitive.
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Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
the top of that mound of went up there and was grazed new hinges off the top and is now looking very smug with herself yes you're a pretty girl aren't you she's a beautiful cat and seriously I've enjoyed like I say my officer noon hopefully you guys have - its way special like I said to spend some time with and cheetah you know and you know
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Why do we sleep? PIPE...
There is no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more wealth at all. There's no difference in socioeconomic status. In my experience, the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug.
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How the worst moments in...
People narrow the world and function in discrete groups without empathy for one another. But properly understood and wisely practiced, identity politics should expand our idea of what it is to be human. Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal,
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This could be why you're...
"No longer close to anyone." In the international measurements of loneliness, Britain and the rest of Europe are just behind the US, in case anyone here is feeling smug. I spent a lot of time discussing this with the leading expert in the world on loneliness,
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Ash Beckham: When to...
And she set down her fork, and locked eyes with him, and said, "Yes, a girlfriend. That is all." And his smug smile quickly dropped to one of maternal respect, grabbed his plate, walked off, went back to work. She never made eye contact with me.
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The case against "good"...
all smug and satisfied with their work. How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence. We must replace these two words with the truth, with phrases that include adequate and sincere adjectives.
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How to outsmart the...
and the smug fox runs off with a belly full of gingerbread, leaving the two former friends with just one leg to stand on. Normally, this is where the story would end, but a wizard happened to be watching the whole mess unfold.
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Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...
Yes you are. Yes I'm looking smug. I know you are yeah. I look very smug because I have an angler fish skull. You couldn't make it up. That's so cool, I'm so envious of your angler. Look at that. Here it is. Here it is.
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Cats vs. Gravity PIPE...
people's cats doing hilarious things so we thought we put these wonders of the web to work and find out if cats are as clever as their smug little faces suggest or other as daft as the rest of
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My road trip through the...
And I learned in Whitopia how a country can have racism without racists. Many of my smug urban liberal friends couldn't believe I would go on such a venture.
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Safari Live - Day 272 PIPE...
the top of that mound of went up there and was grazed new hinges off the top and is now looking very smug with herself yes you're a pretty girl aren't you she's a beautiful cat and seriously I've enjoyed like I say my officer noon hopefully you guys have - its way special like I said to spend some time with and cheetah you know and you know
Video examples
Why do we sleep? PIPE...
There is no evidence that getting up early and going to bed early gives you more wealth at all. There's no difference in socioeconomic status. In my experience, the only difference between morning people and evening people is that those people that get up in the morning early are just horribly smug.
Video examples
How the worst moments in...
People narrow the world and function in discrete groups without empathy for one another. But properly understood and wisely practiced, identity politics should expand our idea of what it is to be human. Identity itself should be not a smug label or a gold medal,
Video examples
This could be why you're...
"No longer close to anyone." In the international measurements of loneliness, Britain and the rest of Europe are just behind the US, in case anyone here is feeling smug. I spent a lot of time discussing this with the leading expert in the world on loneliness,
Video examples
Ash Beckham: When to...
And she set down her fork, and locked eyes with him, and said, "Yes, a girlfriend. That is all." And his smug smile quickly dropped to one of maternal respect, grabbed his plate, walked off, went back to work. She never made eye contact with me.
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The case against "good"...
all smug and satisfied with their work. How dare they? You serve no purpose in our world, and we must rid ourselves of your influence. We must replace these two words with the truth, with phrases that include adequate and sincere adjectives.
Video examples
How to outsmart the...
and the smug fox runs off with a belly full of gingerbread, leaving the two former friends with just one leg to stand on. Normally, this is where the story would end, but a wizard happened to be watching the whole mess unfold.
Video examples
Deep Sea Anglerfish Sex...
Yes you are. Yes I'm looking smug. I know you are yeah. I look very smug because I have an angler fish skull. You couldn't make it up. That's so cool, I'm so envious of your angler. Look at that. Here it is. Here it is.
Video examples
Cats vs. Gravity PIPE...
people's cats doing hilarious things so we thought we put these wonders of the web to work and find out if cats are as clever as their smug little faces suggest or other as daft as the rest of
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My road trip through the...
And I learned in Whitopia how a country can have racism without racists. Many of my smug urban liberal friends couldn't believe I would go on such a venture.
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David Farr
American Businessman
The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.
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Ellen McLaughlin
American Playwright
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
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Tim Minchin
Australian Comedian
London represents the idea that someone pulled away the set from my life and replaced it with another. 'Here is your new baby. Here is your new life. And now you do comedy.' Without being smug, it's the best fun.
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Gwendoline Christie
British Actress
I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.
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Doris Lessing
English Writer
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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Holly Valance
Australian Musician
I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy.
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Ralph Nader
American Lawyer
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Matt Stone
American Producer
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
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Herb Caen
American Journalist
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
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David Farr
American Businessman
The reason it's called 'The Heart of Robin Hood' is that he starts off not having a heart - or certainly not being in contact with it. And through a series of stories, he learns to discover that he has one. He becomes much more dramatic as a character, to be honest, because there's something rather too smug about the endless do-gooder.
Quote examples
Ellen McLaughlin
American Playwright
I became frustrated early on as a playwright by a kind of smug smallness in modern drama. There was a lack of what I now understand as courage in the work of others as well as in my own work, and I found I was mildly amused or interested by such plays but not deeply engaged or enlightened.
Quote examples
Tim Minchin
Australian Comedian
London represents the idea that someone pulled away the set from my life and replaced it with another. 'Here is your new baby. Here is your new life. And now you do comedy.' Without being smug, it's the best fun.
Quote examples
Gwendoline Christie
British Actress
I love the character of Jaime Lannister. He's just so complex - a character that we love to hate - but it's a lot more complex than hatred. It starts off, and he seems so arrogant and so smug.
Quote examples
Doris Lessing
English Writer
What I really can't stand about the feminist revolution is that it produced some of the smuggest, most unselfcritical people the world has ever seen. They are horrible.
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Zig Ziglar
American Author
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds.
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Holly Valance
Australian Musician
I've got such a disgusting, wide, smug grin on my face all the time that my friends just want to slap me. I've never been so happy.
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Ralph Nader
American Lawyer
For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
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Matt Stone
American Producer
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
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Herb Caen
American Journalist
San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.
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