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smug

/smuhg/US // smʌg //UK // (smʌɡ) //

自鸣得意,得意洋洋,自以为是,自以为是的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1

    smug·ger, smug·gest.

    • : contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
    • : trim; spruce; smooth; sleek.

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Examples

  • Don’t Cry for MeThere’s a myth that we Argentines are smug and dramatic.

  • Anyone who has taken an official trip to a minority region is familiar with the requisite dance performance by awkward locals as smug officials stand by.

  • Her Lucille Bluth was the best satire of the smug rich ever done.

  • She was even sweet to that smug ingrate Miss Bunting after she kept insulting everyone at dinner.

  • If couples can seem smug and self-enclosed, the married single represents an even more irritating manifestation of that.

  • Over a period of just a few weeks, a host of high profile periodicals have published smug, scornful dismissals of the music.

  • On video, Raymond Santana was smug, boastful, and nonchalant by turns, vividly reenacting who did what during the rape.

  • So our “right” to feel smug about these kinds of things is rather new.

  • Little did Tressan dream to what a cask of gunpowder he was applying the match of his smug pertness.

  • There was something smug about the way he picked up his heels, swung his briefcase.

  • Lamb had already decided he would give it to him as he came plodding his smug little way home some evening.

  • That smug little editor swallowed everything that I said in the most amusing fashion.

  • Sinclair leaned up against a rock, his arms folded, a smug smile gradually widening across his features.