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Discover LudwigThe phrase "smug face" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe someone who has a self-satisfied or conceited expression, often in a context where they seem overly pleased with themselves. Example: "After winning the debate, he walked around with a smug face, clearly enjoying his victory."
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Sam Allardyce's smuggest smug face.
I'd like to smack his smug face".
The one I had to defriend on Facebook so I wouldn't see pictures of his smug face being happy with someone new.
Now you're with Ulrika Jonsson in the News of the World: "I'd like to throw a whole bucketful of cold water into his smug face".
I am angry that I have to wake up to Nigel Farage's smug face claiming that the NHS figures that have been touted were a lie.
I could go the ethnic route to match my boyfriend - he'll be in traditional Indian dress with garlands of flowers around his neck and a smug face, probably.
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Business magazines splash their smug faces on glossy covers, and give them all the credit for achievements to which thousands of others have contributed.
But also, aside from the music, the spectacle of Tories in power – their smug faces as they busily dismantle people's lives – resonates today.
"Rock the Cradle" mediates our voyeurism, supplying another gross, mesmerizing layer: the smug faces of parents seemingly certain that their children will never surpass or outsell them.
But I never heard, because I was shrinking in shame while a dozen smug faces turned to me and beamed at my failure.
As Jos and Georgy pick a name for the baby, Meredith goes "at a gallop" around the square outside: She didn't know why she hadn't smacked both their smug faces.
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