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  • noun Smugness; smug behaviour or attitude.

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Examples

  • Then, in an act that wreaked of ultimate Bush smuggery, candidate Clinton grew even smugger and smirkier.

    Linda Milazzo: Hillary Clinton's Smug Mug & Her Bush-like Disdain For Dissenters 2008

  • Then, in an act that wreaked of ultimate Bush smuggery, candidate Clinton grew even smugger and smirkier.

    Hillary Clinton's SMUG MUG & Her Bush-like Disdain For Dissenters 2007

  • Which isn't really an answer, either – and frankly, we're pretty pleased that if the story of the Friends characters is continuing, at least all that overwhelmingly slick smuggery is taking place behind closed doors for a change.

    Jennifer Aniston Complains About TV 2006

  • We discussed and worked out distribution together first in the drawing-room floor in Gower Street with my aunt sometimes helping very shrewdly, and then, with a steadily improving type of cigar and older and older whisky, in his smuggery at their first house, the one in

    Tono Bungay 1906

  • Photograph: BBC/Shine/John Wright MasterChef went through its first major change in 2005 - ditching Loyd Grossman's ponderous smuggery for the geezerish banter of Gregg Wallace and John Torode - it briefly found itself saddled with the unfortunate title of MasterChef Goes Large.

    The Guardian World News Stuart Heritage 2011

  • Honest to God, is this really the sort of smuggery and moral onanism that this story has been wrapped in all along?

    Chelsea Blog 2010

  • All monies raised will be spent on a non-profit basis to fund crucial action against self-satisfied smuggery.

    Home | Mail Online 2010

  • Judasphone. com website (she must be read The Reg!) seeks to gently tweak Cupertinian smuggery by means of doctored images and rewritten marketing fluff:

    The Register 2010

  • Second, Apple, for all its irritating smuggery, is not the product of a governmental incubator.

    ReadWriteWeb 2010

  • Second, Apple, for all its irritating smuggery, is not the product of a governmental incubator.

    Original Signal - Transmitting Web 2.0 2010

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