smarminess

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Connolly needs to tone down his usual smarminess, or audiences just won't be that into his performance.

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  • I love the disheartened Peter pepping it up with smarminess just long enough to use make Madam Web do his job for him (even though she did create the whole mess.) —  Branded in the 80s!
  • Connolly needs to tone down his usual smarminess, or audiences just won't be that into his performance. —  Film.com Movie Blog
  • He thinks Harvard kids from the Northeast misinterpret Caleb's Texas good manners as smarminess. —  The Harvard Crimson :: News
  • Ick. Goes badly with the patriotic smarminess, I think. —  The RBC
  • Michael Sheen captures Frost's essential smarminess smartly, but why bother in the first place, except to chew over a spurious "journalistic coup"?
 

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