Smug in a sentence as an adjective

I can just imagine how smug you were writing this, it's making me cringe.

" and act all smug about this discovery.

"To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image.

I genuinely don't mean to sound smug, but -- remember how confident the Telegram guys were?

There is nothing to admire, and patent trolls are merely smug abusers of our society.

Your super password is 20 characters of alphanums with specials and you're feeling pretty smug.

Sometimes I come close to admiring him, but he's so smug for so little reason that I can't appreciate him for his talents.

Every time you feel like you've made the world better by upvoting a story about injustice, you're just making yourself feel smug.

For an article that claims we need software "in all shapes and sizes" the amount of smug superiority exhibited here is amazing.

I would love to talk to her today and wipe that smug look off her face by pointing out that the "safeguards" were nothing more than policy and rules with zero enforcement mechanisms.

I imagine a meeting of otherwise incredibly smart people sitting around in smoking jackets and sipping fine brandy standing around with smug smiles on their face.

The saturated, self-congratulatory, better-than-thou crowd that is smug about their income, prospects and worth.

Nobody asked him to; steveklabnik himself made the original post, taking the opportunity to show off this smug sense of superiority.

"Watch the smug get slapped right off of Narayen’s face after he laughably tries to claim that contrary to Steve Jobs’s argument that Flash is a dead technology, it’s currently running on 130 million Android devices.

You can even do the smug, Internet know-it-all thing and say this is completely pedestrian, name-drop Descartes and a bunch of other philosophers, and hit me with a zinger about how this is about as deep as "The Matrix".

You're not going to convince anyone who matters, and anyway you have nothing to gain by doing so: Instead, just short Facebook stock and be smug in the knowledge that, when Facebook announces next year that they're abandoning PHP in favor of a ménage à trois of OCaml, F#, and Clojure, you'll be able to say "I told you so".

Smug definitions

adjective

marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation"

See also: self-satisfied