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• r  in a smug manner
  the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern

• Socialist Premier Cyrankiewicz was smugly happy himself.
• Don't sit there smugly and assume that your sterling credentials will save you, says the author bluntly: "Got a swanky Ivy League degree? How nice.
• I like to boast, smugly, that I haven't paid for a CD in years.

News & Articles

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• Letter: Dueling comics
  Brad Watson, Naples: Doonesbury makes people laugh, regardless of political persuasion. Mallard Fillmore deliberately attacks and makes folks either smugly self-satisfied or angry at the blatant omission of critical facts.
  June 12, 2013 - Naples Daily News

Quotes

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• Antonin Scalia in Reuters
  In such cases, "smacking someone in the face" could be justified, the outspoken Scalia told the BBC. "You can't come in smugly and with great self satisfaction and say 'Oh it's torture, and therefore it's no good.'"
• Lionel Shriver in The Guardian
  OK, it's official,said Shriver on learning of her win. "Kevin no longer belongs to me, but to you lot. While I am abashed at this honour, Kevin himself is smugly self-satisfied. Think of all the attention that one school mass murder has...
• Margaret Wente in Ottawa Citizen (registration)
  Canadians are smugly appalled at the grim conditions of inner-city schools in the United States, where cops roam the halls and surveillance cameras and metal detectors are standard equipment,wrote Margaret Wente in the Globe and Mail. "So...