Sentence examples for smug like from inspiring English sources
We have been told often enough that to disapprove of gangsta rap is pointless, middle class, and smug, like disapproving of modern urban life itself.
Soon, they will go forth and repopulate a world in which all the boys sit around looking smug like Newt Gingrich and all the girls sound like Michele Bachmann.
Prior to the runway show, Reco finishes early and swans off to take a nap on the couch, all smug-like.
Critchley and Webster imagine a "smug Polonius-like analyst" diagnosing Hamlet: "Hamlet's problem is he cannot love".
The Economist, in its review of Where to Invade Next, said: "Smug leftwingers will like it because it reinforces what they already know, but middle Americans will recoil from the racist, violent picture of their country that it paints".
Listening to it is akin to watching a smug film, like Eat Pray Love or Juno.
It is progressive, blue, reasonable, secular, and smug — almost like California.
But Cruz's aura of smug sanctimony, like his lack of humility, is striking even in an age of Trumpery.
(One classmate recalled his "look of smug satisfaction," like a man "preparing to hold his future views with great setness and personal appreciation of their importance").
Wince-inducingly smug efforts like Kenneth Branagh's Peter's Friends (1992) and the Primrose Hill saga Love, Honour and Obey (2000) clearly had it coming.
For London, in this guise, conspires to make you feel simultaneously rich and poor, the smug lift like the water's gentle swell and the ebb and hollow that take its place.
