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Examples of smug in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There’s the imperious Cardinal Tremblay (a smug and quivering John Lithgow), who was the last person to see the Holy Father before his death, and seems to be hiding a gospel’s worth of alternate truths under his robes. David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 31 Aug. 2024 He is recruited by the FBI (represented by a smug bureaucrat and an inept field agent) to infiltrate and bring down the Brotherhood, a violent white-supremacist biker gang. Helaine Williams, arkansasonline.com, 10 Aug. 2024 Yes, some people facing hardship can nonetheless be intolerably smug. Charles Bramesco, Vulture, 1 Mar. 2024 Nevertheless, Republicans can’t get too smug about the Democrat’s disarray. Paul Bedard, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 27 July 2024 See all Example Sentences for smug 

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“Smug.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/smug. Accessed 31 Oct. 2024.

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