Sentence examples for smarm from inspiring English sources

After 15 seasons of singing, squawking, bitching, Simon Cowell's V-necks and Ryan Seacrest's ceaseless smarm, Fox has finally had enough.

Lay it on too thick and charm becomes smarm: an attractive quality becomes oleaginous, deterrent and repulsive.

At moments like this — there are many more to come — Matthew Crawley was dangerously close to stepping from charm across into smarm.

Still, the music moves along smartly and crisply and usually compensates for the smarm.

The show featured a cavalcade of wry, dry introverts and cerebral performers, from Steve Martin to Barack Obama; outrageous types, like Martin Short and Nathan Lane, satirizing Hollywood smarm; and Don Rickles and Howard Stern, lobbing put-downs.

Howard McGillin, in the role of Honoré, is devoid of Chevalier's twinkly smarm, but also of his pate, his paunch, and his Gallic worldliness.

Through sharp dialogue, carefully modulated performances by a remarkable cast (including Tippi Hedren as a feminist ice queen and Burt Reynolds as a pure-smarm preacher), and an amazing eye for telling details and class differences, Payne finds the humanity behind the stereotypes — but he's after bigger game.

Read our episode seven recap With more smart use of Jimmy's "I'm a bit younger" hairpiece, we're shown the roots of the rivalry with smarm-master Howard Hamlin.

Were you one of those kids who smarms up to their friends' parents when you were over at their house?

I didn't know her well, but I'd done some events with her… the morning after the referendum, everyone was on TV smarming about the results, and I went into the bathroom and I was hysterical.

After the year he's had, it's impossible to watch him smarming at his mum or barking orders at thin air without thinking, "What a prat".