Sentence examples for smug way from inspiring English sources

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But not in a smug way.

It wasn't even said in a smug way! 5.20pm GMT Actually forget being a hockey goalie.

"Not in a smug way – I feel totally righteous," he said.

You'll never again have to experience the smug way it just kind of came apart in your hands as you knelt in a pool of its dirt.

Author reviews of war books, plays and Armistice Day shoddy editorial in Times which deprecates in a smug way that there should be no unmanly whimpering about the war which had to be gone through.

"He would attack people in a smug way that was harder-edged and more insulting than was necessary, said Mark Salter, the former chief of staff to Senator John McCain, the Arizona Republican, adding that lawmakers in both parties shared this view.

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In her last picks column she predicted only one of the Final Four teams correctly, claiming in her smug hairless way that Indiana would upset Kentucky, which, c'mon.

This way of being was one that Kathy referred to, rather unimaginatively, as "smug mode".

Engage smug mode.

Over the years, we've also felt pretty smug at the way your politics is dominated by big business.

The town is called Salem, which the play uses to joke about the smug yet goofy way the students grasp the witch-hunting connections.

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