smug
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
smug (comparative smugger, superlative smuggest)
- Irritatingly pleased with oneself, offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
- Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
- (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
- 1556, Raphe Robynson, More’s Utopia: The English Translation thereof
- They be so smug and smooth.
- the smug and scanty draperies of his style
- (Can we date this quote?), Francis Beaumont; John Fletcher, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: Printed for Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, OCLC 3083972 ↗, Act 1, scene 2:
- A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.
- 1556, Raphe Robynson, More’s Utopia: The English Translation thereof
- French: auto-satisfait, suffisant
- German: blasiert, eingebildet, selbstgefällig, süffisant, selbstzufrieden, dünkelhaft, arrogant, überheblich
- Italian: compiaciuto, autocompiaciuto
- Portuguese: presunçoso, convencido
- Russian: самодово́льный
- Spanish: ufano, engreído, petulante, creído
smug (smugs, present participle smugging; past and past participle smugged)
- (obsolete, transitive) To make smug, or spruce.
- Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
- (obsolete, transitive) To seize; to confiscate.
- (obsolete, transitive, slang) To hush up.
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