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smarmy adjective smug, self-satisfied; overly sentimental UK, 1909- This guy was built like a brick shithouse, with an elephantine mustache and smoldering brown eyes. What was he doing hooked up to that sort of smarmy Euro-pop? — Armistead Maupin, Further Tales of the City, p. 150, 1982
- — Connie Eble (Editor), UNC-CH Campus Slang, p. 7, Spring 1987
- “I never wanna see your smarmy face again,” Burl Ralston said. “You’re never doing business with me after this.” — Joseph Wambaugh, Finnegan’s Week, p. 107, 1993
- [O]dd that someone with a title can be so very smarmy and common[.] — Michael Faber, The Crimson Petal and the White, 2003
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