smugness

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• Smugness — Smug ness, n. The quality or state of being smug. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• 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