The word "smarmy" is a correct and usable English word.
It is used to describe someone who is unctuous, flattering, and insincere. For example, "The politician's smarmy tone was enough to make me roll my eyes."
Bev hates him – rightly so, he's a smarmy so-and-so who attempts to work in snide references to Yoko Ono every time they meet.
I thought Osborne gave a very smarmy answer, but I found Darling's response compelling: he said he had been speaking to his son about that very issue and realised the government had to do something about it.
James Glassman, of the American Enterprise Institute, last week wrote that "the smarmy D'Amato is an embarrassment to party, state and Congress," adding a definition of "D'Amato-ism, the ideology of personal and political gain over any kind of principle".
A better analogy might be American television's "The Colbert Report" with Stephen Colbert, the smarmy, egomaniacal and always in-character chat-show host who just adores his Republican presidents.For the past six years, Mr Kamardeen has created scripts in which the main character was a scheming, self-serving president.
His comedy version of the Jekyll and Hyde story, The Nutty Professor (1963), opened to good reviews and is generally considered to be his best film, with the hapless Professor Kelp Lewiss) transformed through the magic of chemistry into the smarmy, egocentric Buddy Love a parody of Martin whose smug confidence helps attract a beautiful student (Stella Stevens).
I choose musicians as an example because they are ordinarily expected to be drug-addled teenagers or smarmy adolescent YouTubers.
Every possible dirty trick is tried by Chirac and his smarmy, foul-mouthed lieutenant (D de Villepin) to destroy Sarkozy, but he is too determined and too clever for them.
Well, Liam Neeson is Hannibal, Bradley Cooper (smarmy but not pretty enough) is Face, the unknown Quinton "Rampage" Jackson plays B A Baracus and Sharlto Copley (good in Neill Blomkamp's inventive sci-fi District 9, but no Carrey) is the unhinged Murdock.
The villain is a smarmy tycoon played by Roger Allam, who brings the film a little undeserved dignity, his smoothly quivering jowl more or less the only thing that's organic.
You can wear your own clothes and look on in smarmy disgust at the rest of us in charity shop garms and cheap face paint.
And he did it with facts, not with smarmy "data" and soapbox rhetoric.
