smug
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There is no getting around the fact that she looks incredibly smug.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2026
Competing as “A Dumb Reporter” with a fictional $1 million, I challenged Grok and felt pretty smug early on.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 18, 2026
"I felt very smug when I beat some horses," she said.
From BBC ● May 10, 2026
They’re insincere and elitist and out of touch and smug in many respects, from the perspective of a young man.
From Slate ● Mar. 25, 2026
Her grin turns smug, like a crocodile lurking in murky waters.
From "I Can Make This Promise" by Christine Day
But that movie, for all its missteps, looks increasingly like the noblest of failures, a genuinely nervy, conceptually ambitious folly from which the director has now retreated to this movie’s safer, smugger climes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2023
Even though it is 75% smugger than it needs to be.
From The Guardian ● May 23, 2018
Instead, today’s bad mommies are as smug, and even sometimes smugger, than those good mommies they aimed to resist.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2014
The Kenwigses, with whom Nicholas boards for a spell, are even smugger and snugger: more than a dozen Kenwigses and friends squeeze nightly into their snuffbox-size parlor.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hermione’s expression could not have been any smugger; she had loathed being outperformed in every Potions class.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Some have called it the "smuggest TikTok trend yet".
From BBC ● Jan. 13, 2023
Blinking into the sun from the comfort of his very own swaddle, Buster was the smuggest schnauzer I’d ever seen.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 19, 2019
So Goldman Sachs, the world's greatest and smuggest investment bank, has been sued for fraud by the American Securities and Exchange Commission.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 23, 2010
At the rate they are going they may win, by more than a nose, the crown as smuggest.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet I would have every man tread the Open Road; I would have him upon occasion question the smuggest institution and look askance upon the most ancient habit.
From Adventures in Friendship by David Grayson
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