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- noun
Smugness ;smug behaviour or attitude.
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Examples
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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
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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
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All monies raised will be spent on a non-profit basis to fund crucial action against self-satisfied smuggery.
Home | Mail Online 2010
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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
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Second, Apple, for all its irritating smuggery, is not the product of a governmental incubator.
ReadWriteWeb 2010
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Second, Apple, for all its irritating smuggery, is not the product of a governmental incubator.
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