Sentence examples for smugly satisfied from inspiring English sources

Boorman, quite the showman, seemed smugly satisfied with the reactions.

Even when your opponent is smugly satisfied that he has stunned you into shamed silence.

"I'm very smugly satisfied with my lot," he says, stirring his tea.

If so, using a scale from 1 to 10, how smugly satisfied are you that the ploy worked?

A far cry from the deeply conflicted protagonists of today's TV dramas — Don Draper, Walter White, Tony Soprano — J. R. was always smugly satisfied with his bad behavior.

Another well-known painting by him is Daughters of Revolution (1932), a satirical portrait of three unattractive old women who appear smugly satisfied with their American Revolutionary ancestry.

The first indication you're in for something fun and different at the Soho is the ten-foot Fernando Botero sculpture of a smugly satisfied-looking cat that greets visitors in the lobby.

Similarly, a person can be overconfident without being complacent, that is, without being smugly self-satisfied.

It's not quite "A Moveable Feast," and the tone can be smugly self-satisfied, but Corbett's sharp observations lend the tale a dash of élan.

But Love, Nina (BBC1) trumped all: finely acted but, excruciatingly, just a smugly self-satisfied north London take on very first-world problems and blighted with the lack of any vestige of humour, empathy or interest in character.

But it didn't last long: I got sick of looking at the same Rothko abstract "multiform" month after month, and I eventually decided that the painting was dull and smugly self-satisfied, even though it had formerly lulled me into pleasant, contemplative moods.