Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The state or character of being smug; neatness; spruceness;. self-satisfaction; conceited smartness.
Wiktionary
- n. uncountable The state or quality of being smug.
- n. countable The result or product of being smug.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The quality or state of being smug.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction
Etymologies
- From smug + -ness (Wiktionary)
Examples
“But my motivation was “a good deed for the day” and my partner in smugness on this occasion, was mum whose ex Fleetline.”
“Smugness is, as you note, never an attractive trait -- whether or not the smugness is justified, and whether or not the source is entirely flawless.”
“Such smugness is in fact common among many cultural revolutions.”
“I think other than that the smugness is just about equal between the two.”
“Kristina Graber, of Three Rivers, Calif., wrote, As a hybrid-vehicle owner, I have come to recognize a certain smugness hybrid ownership brings.”
“This is what preserves the shentong view from nihilism, and from a certain smugness bred of holding the ultimate philosophical joker up your sleeve.”
“Mike Arrington: “Google smugness is at an all time high.””
“I almost would avoid a term like ignorance, because it implies a certain smugness on the part of the person using it.”
“The speaker's all-caps font of choice implies a certain smugness; the "PAPA" protagonist has engaged in unrespectable behavior, but this behavior was so far geographically removed from the artwork's installation (on a hallway door in Tennessee, USA) that perhaps "PAPA" expected the illicit, economically-prompted fucking in question would not come to light back at home.”
“i loathe conservatives, but smugness is really unbecoming.”
Lists
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Bike Snob'isms
words I saw while reading the Bike Snob
helment, scranus, podium, sangue borse, hipster, dandydom, effete, douchebag, douchebags, Lobweh, Portland, brakeless track bike and 365 more...
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I Can't Believe It's Not Listed
Words that, at the I put them here, weren't being listed by anyone else in the entire universe.
vagus, neoplanet, fadiddy, cazique, catastroika, circumciser, commonplace book, danseuse, ecopod, dichloroacetate, underlay, overlay and 374 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
Tweets
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bilby "Looking back at Star Trek, more than four decades after Roddenberry's vision entered our homes, what's remarkable is how much it captured a still extant American optimism and an American cultural smugness. The optimism today has been muted, but the smugness -- not so much. After all, official American 'expeditionary forces' continue to travel the 'final frontiers' of our own planet, if not the galaxy, armed to the teeth with our own versions of phasers and photon torpedoes. At the same time, most of us continue to see ourselves as a peace-loving, Federation-like crew, a force for progress, for international cooperation, and above all for good."
- William Astore, Aboard the Imperial Star Ship Ameriprise, tomdispatch.com, 26 March 2009. Mar 27, 2009