smarminess

• “There's a kind of smarminess about Gramm that I find distasteful.”

  You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You: Politics in the Clinton Years

• “Epluribus, I never said that smarminess and snarkiness are Jewish traits, not anything close.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?

• “But I'm getting to know a lot more about the devious smarminess of her opponents.”

  The Huffington Post: Robert J. Elisberg: The Butler Didn't Do It

• “If he could master that Carolina drawl and Edwards 'affable smarminess, maybe he'd even earn another Academy Award nomination.”

  The Washington Post: Casting Aaron Sorkin's John Edwards movie

• “I never said that smarminess and snarkiness are Jewish traits, not anything close.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?

• “I also made no connection to smarminess/snakiness with any ethnic group.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?

• “You, therefore, made a connection between snarkiness/smarminess and Jewishness.”

  The Volokh Conspiracy » Why Catholics and Jews?

• “Ms. Coon, whose work in the ensemble of Wisconsin's American Players Theatre had already caught my eye, brings off the gratifying feat of making a big impression in a small role — I've never seen a better onstage drunk act — and Mr. Dirks plays Nick, her scheming spouse, with a discreet and freshening touch of smarminess.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Deep Down in Their Private Lives

• “The movie version five years later toned down the ending but still captured its sense of mayhem efficiently managed by corporate smarminess.”

  The Washington Post: America's team

• “Not for Bombay the power-stained, whiskey-addled smooth smarminess of Delhi or the muted, spring-sprinkled vibrancy of Bangalore.”

  Fictionaut: Bicycle Boys

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