smarmily
- r in an unctuous manner
- His much younger wife (Nancy Snyder) is as smarmily supportive as she is unbearably actressy.
- McCarthy finds Charles Reich (The Greening of America) "smarmily loving" and feminist Germaine Greer "an absurd Australian giantess.
- Ronald (Richard Kiley) is an upper-class banker of such genteel indifference that he reads a washing-machine manual while Sidney smarmily courts him.