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  • verb Present participle of smarm.

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Examples

  • “Because from where I was standing, it seemed like he was smarming all over you and refusing to let you out of the church.”

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Does Blair really mean what he is saying or is he just trying to flog his book by smarming up to a cash-rich sector of the market?

    Boycott Blair's Book! 2010

  • “Because from where I was standing, it seemed like he was smarming all over you and refusing to let you out of the church.”

    Confetti Confidential Holly McQueen 2010

  • Does Blair really mean what he is saying or is he just trying to flog his book by smarming up to a cash-rich sector of the market?

    Boycott Blair's Book! 2010

  • If my ex, Orlando, had been taller, smoother, richer, and altogether more golden god-ish, he might have gotten within smarming distance of Prince Nicolas of Hollenberg.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • If my ex, Orlando, had been taller, smoother, richer, and altogether more golden god-ish, he might have gotten within smarming distance of Prince Nicolas of Hollenberg.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • If my ex, Orlando, had been taller, smoother, richer, and altogether more golden god-ish, he might have gotten within smarming distance of Prince Nicolas of Hollenberg.

    The Little Lady Agency and the Prince Hester Browne 2008

  • There are over seven hundred of your tame senators here, Antonius, busy smarming up to you so assiduously that their noses have turned quite brown, Octavian said acidly.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • There are over seven hundred of your tame senators here, Antonius, busy smarming up to you so assiduously that their noses have turned quite brown, Octavian said acidly.

    Antony and Cleopatra Colleen McCullough 2007

  • Was he really the person who could get satisfaction from smarming up to some rich industrialist and his blow-up doll of a wife?

    A Hopeless Romantic Harriet Evans 2006

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