- Smugness
- Smugness Smug"ness, n. The quality or state of being smug. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.
Smugness
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smugness — index pride Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
smugness — smug ► ADJECTIVE (smugger, smuggest) ▪ irritatingly pleased with oneself; self satisfied. DERIVATIVES smugly adverb smugness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «neat, spruce»; from Low German smuk pretty … English terms dictionary
smugness — noun see smug … New Collegiate Dictionary
smugness — See smugly. * * * … Universalium
smugness — noun a) The state or quality of being smug. b) The result or product of being smug … Wiktionary
smugness — Synonyms and related words: Quakerishness, amour propre, autoeroticism, blandness, bovinity, butter, censoriousness, complacence, complacency, consequentiality, demureness, demurity, ego trip, fair words, false modesty, fulsomeness, glibness,… … Moby Thesaurus
smugness — n. quality of being smug, quality of being self satisfied, complacency … English contemporary dictionary
smugness — smug·ness … English syllables
smugness — See: smug … English dictionary
smugness — noun an excessive feeling of self satisfaction • Derivationally related forms: ↑smug • Hypernyms: ↑complacency, ↑complacence, ↑self complacency, ↑self satisfaction … Useful english dictionary
