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• If you don't put away that smug little smile I swear you'll get it right in the teeth.From the entry get it
• For one thing, she always looked far too smug at the outraged expressions on the magistras’ faces.2020, E.J. Russell, Witch Under Wraps, Riptide Publishing, →ISBN, page 34. From the entry magistra
• The last thing I feel like is squeezing into Lycra and standing next to smug matcha-drinking gymfluencers.2020 January 12, Sarah Jossel, “Six beauty products to use while exercising”, in The Times, London: News UK, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from…. From the entry gymfluencer
• Alternate iterations of Pepe, including sad, smug and angry Pepes, followed.2016 October 11, Jessica Roy, “How 'Pepe the Frog' went from harmless to hate symbol”, in Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Calif.: Los…. From the entry Pepe
• This overstuffed, smug, showy and sentimental music can almost persuade when it is performed with undoubting conviction.2002 October 6, Mike Greenberg, “Guest, symphony an adept team”, in San Antonio Express-News, page 8B. From the entry undoubting
• The Eskimo is a nobler, cheerfuller and easy-goinger person than we smug civilized citizens have always imagined.1935 July 2, W. E. Farbstein, “Marginal Notes”, in Washington Herald, volume XIII, number 219, Washington, D.C.: American Newspapers…. From the entry cheerful
• Without being in any way smug she was radiant with self-satisfaction and well-doing.1905, Bram Stoker, “Fore-Glimpse”, in The Man. From the entry self-satisfaction
• So what's got me feeling mildly smug and back-patty today?2018 April 5, Marc T. Michael, “In A State Of His Own”, in The Pulse, page 16. From the entry back-patty
• Jeez man, one of them might say, a smug overgrown teenager with an Astros cap, what a freak.2016, Toby Vieira, Marlow’s Landing, John Murray, →ISBN. From the entry collegeboy
• Am I alone in feeling smug (if slatternly) about the news that super-clean homes are a breeding ground for infection?2015 April 4, Judith Woods, “I knew it! Spring cleaning is bad for your family's health [print version: Vindicated at last! It's healthier…. From the entry abysmally
• He smiled a very smug, unministerlike smile.2012, Mallory Rush, Just a Little Sin, →ISBN. From the entry unministerlike
• Sally went on, smug with the knowledge of grown-up secrets.2010, Scott Nicholson, Kiss Me or Die. From the entry babymaker
• "These economists are so smug," he said derisively.2005 September 10, Joseph Nocera, “On Oil Supply, Opinions Aren't Scarce”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry peakist
• Looking from juror to juror and seeking out the smug faces of the witnesses who'd testified against him, he repeated his threat.1988, Randy Russell, Janet Barnett, “Dead Dan's Shadow on the Wall”, in Mountain Ghost Stories and Curious Tales of Western North…. From the entry haint
• "If I bump you with my car -- and I will" -- Liam knew his smile was smug -- "you can shout me a batterd sav and a beer.2017, Annie Seaton, Her Outback Surprise, →ISBN. From the entry battered sav
• Why should Jonathan, Ruth and all the others have to stay out there like sitting ducks as policemen and their smug reporter friends took pot shots at them?2007 July 22, Sarah Helm, “My family's ordeal in police probe”, in The Observer. From the entry pot shot
• He led the way through the main entrance and marched right up to the immaculate, smug, dinner-jacketed man who was leaning in front of the desk.1909 March 7, “Little Stories of Fact and Fancy: Slightly and Slightingly Mistaken”, in The New York Times, volume LVIII, number 18,670…. From the entry dinner-jacketed

Meaning of smug

1. adjective Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
2. adjective Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
3. adjective Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

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How do you use smug in a sentence?

Smug is used as an adjective, verb and noun. For example: “Kate looked extremely smug this morning.”

What is a short sentence with smug?

“Kate looked extremely smug this morning.”

What does smug mean?

Smug means irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.