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• n  smug self-serving earnestness

• Selfish, lecherous and desperate to move up the career ladder, he irritated and deceived his crew (including a young Geena Davis) with impeccable smarminess.
• Steve also has his own violent innocence, which tests the limits of Al's smarminess hilariously.
• Stanley Tucci exudes a quiet smarminess as the suspect, and despite the show's tawdry subject matter, it never feels cheap.

• fulsomeness
• oiliness
• oleaginousness
• unctuousness
• unction

News & Articles

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• Catching Fire: Slow Burn With a Sizzling Star
  The big dazzle moment in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire comes not in Katniss Everdeen’s home District, nor in the faux-jungle where the Games are fought. It’s on stage in the Capitol of Panem, that future American dystopia — in fantasy fiction, is there any other -topia? — the night before the 75th Hunger Games, when Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci), the TV host with the Guy Smiley smarminess ...
  Nov. 20, 2013 - Time Magazine