smugness
Example Sentences
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The fact that she never brought His Smugness aboard as a Lakers executive should’ve been a clue.
From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2017
Smugness turns to vulnerability with the drop of his eyebrow.
From Los Angeles Times • May 13, 2017
The photo, a portrait of Out Of Control Smugness of Our Times, is all sun-kissed, faux bonhomie, but reveals a Necker pecking order.
From The Guardian • Jan. 27, 2013
Smugness is the peculiar vice of the middle, the hardest of all qualities for anyone to detect in himself.
From Time Magazine Archive
And Fothy's life is one long, grim, desperate struggle against Conventionality, and Social Injustice, and Smugness, and the Established Order, and Complacence.
From Hermione's Group of Thinkers by Marquis, Don
