smugness

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smug

(smŭg)

adj. smug·ger, smug·gest

Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent: a smug look; a smug critic.

[Perhaps akin to Low German smuck, neat, from Middle Low German, from smucken, to adorn.]

smug′ly adv.

smug′ness n.

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Noun

smugness - an excessive feeling of self-satisfaction

complacence, complacency, self-complacency, self-satisfaction - the feeling you have when you are satisfied with yourself; "his complacency was absolutely disgusting"

Translations

زَهْو، إزدِهاء بالنَّفْس

samolibost

selvtilfredshed

Selbstgefälligkeit

suffisance

önelégültség

sjálfumgleîi, hroki

kendini beğenmişlik

自满

smugness

[ˈsmʌgnɪs] N → engreimiento m, suficiencia f

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

smugness

[ˈsmʌgnɪs] n → suffisance f

Collins English/French Electronic Resource. © HarperCollins Publishers 2005

smugness

n → Selbstgefälligkeit f

Collins German Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged 7th Edition 2005. © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1980 © HarperCollins Publishers 1991, 1997, 1999, 2004, 2005, 2007

smugness

[ˈsmʌgnɪs] n (of person, expression) → aria compiaciuta, aria di sufficienza

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

smug

(smag) adjective

well satisfied, or too obviously pleased, with oneself. I don't like that smug little man.

ˈsmugly adverb

ˈsmugness noun

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"I worship you, but I loathe marriage, I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise, and the thought of you interfering in my work, hindering me; what would you answer?"

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Meanwhile, Pardew should never be allowed to forget his rug-cutting moves because the image perfectly summed up his smugness, arrogance, vanity, and managerial career: Making a song and dance about winning nothing.

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Ten minutes later my smugness turned to queasiness and I had to ask Rafik to make me some Morrocan mint tea to settle my stomach.

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Smugness at these conclusions would appear to be the wrong response.

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