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smugness

s muhg nuhs

  • n  an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

  • It restores a personal, lyric dimension to folk music, cuts through the smugness and self-absorption that have characterized it for too long.
  • As the rebellious counselor, Langella is a man of stoic determination, but not without moments of fear, doubt, temper and smugness; his moral courage seems cobbled out of human .
  • In all of Funt's TV work there was an underlying hum of smugness.
Quotes

  • William Bennett in Los Angeles Times
    In all my time in Washington I've never seen such smugness, arrogance, or such insufferable moral superiority,Bennett wrote on the National Review website. "Self-congratulatory. Full of itself. Horrible."
  • Mike Huckabee in TIME
    I don't take issue with what they believe, but the smugness with which they believe it,writes Huckabee, who raised some taxes as governor and cut deals with his state's Democratic legislature. "Faux-Cons aren't interested in spirited or...
  • David Peterson in SLAM! Sports
    We put on a very good presentation but the other cities are improving their game,Peterson warned. "Our biggest enemy is smugness, that we have some God-given right. (Lima and Bogota) are totally dedicated to winning and aren't fooling...

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