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Examples of smarmy
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A truculent Hispanic gardener and smarmy moneyed preppy fill in the class array.
From the post-gazette.com
For 11 months of the year, I turn up my nose at the smarmy come-ons in the mail.
From the stltoday.com
At least that smarmy creep with the clipboard has gone from Beaconsfield Station.
From the bucksfreepress.co.uk
Tom gets a job in a World of Sofas commercial with smarmy actor Rick Cheesecloth.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Our lot of ex-public schoolboy smarmy incompetents beat yours hands down any day.
From the guardian.co.uk
But the narrative in the press about Al Gore was that he was a smarmy know-it-all.
From the techcrunch.com
So Jim needs to have a character arc from smarmy-vacuous to man-of-integrity.
From the theepochtimes.com
When he heads out the door, Healy can take the smarmy Mark Nicholas with him.
From the nzherald.co.nz
Campbell is in great smarmy form here, and the script is funny from start to finish.
From the dailyherald.com
- Buttery: unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
- Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating
- Ingratiating; full of false charm, affection and flattery.
- Adj. Describing someone as smarmy is very similar to calling them slimy or sleazy (and not just in terms of how they all sound, before I get some smart-ass email). ...
- Adj. 1. Offensively suave and smug. A used car salesman might be said to be smarmy.
