smarminess
- 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.