Smugness Sentence Examples

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  • He smiled at her with continued smugness.

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  • Dean could feel the smugness in Fred's voice.

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  • That may well be true, but smugness breeds complacency, and that is dangerous.

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  • He sat back with a hint of smugness.

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  • That report, released August 2002, has made quite a dent in the self-satisfied smugness of the Royal Society.

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  • He said this with a smugness that didn't improve Dean's mood one iota.

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  • Past-Death's smugness was back.

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