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How to use smugly in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word smugly? Here are some examples.

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We smugly headed for disaster, confident in our abilities and worry-free because nothing had ever gone wrong before.
While I waited for him, slightly smugly, I found myself glancing once more at a notice board.
He somewhat smugly notes that 96 per cent of those polled believe in God or some other higher power.
Defenders of cognitive behaviour therapy are sitting smugly on a mountain of their own evidence.
When I told my friend about our good luck, she smugly told me it wasn't luck.
He examined his flat, slenderly muscled stomach, noted the distinct absence of red and green from his wardrobe, and scowled smugly.
In one of the many smugly tended, overpriced noodle shops we met Bob, a guide as sure-footed as a mountain goat.
It's ironic that a conservationist should so smugly place his own interests above the lives of the animals he destroys.
I heard the buzz that signaled for me to open the door and I smiled smugly as I walked in.
It's a saying that makes women livid with frustration and anger at the unfairness of life, while men can remain smugly secure in their bald spot.
Sooner, rather than later, library writers smugly mention their object-oriented approach.
Soaking in the sun amidst the abundant culture around, I sat back on a bench, smugly pleased with myself.
The machinations of Booker juries are a smugly guarded secret, but one senses a good few compromises and second-bests here.
An email follows asking you to attend, smugly knowing that you have no conflicting commitments.
With our unrefined ways and backwoods Malayali attire, we would sit coyly, yet smugly, as the juke-box sang at our command.
I swear he gets more smugly punchable with every appearance.
In our rush to judgment, we paint all welfare recipients with the same brush to smugly justify our inaction.
The Bloc talks for the sake of talking, but when it is time for action, it smugly rests on its laurels.
Rather, these grown-ups smugly go about their business, sipping drinks and schmoozing one another in hopes of earning a big return on their initial investments.
Yet, despite his shortcomings, he presides smugly over a programme in which young couples pit their attractiveness against that of their friends to win cash.
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And how smugly, to be sure, would he talk about his children's tutor!
On the instant those at the table were keyed up and expectant, the servant was smugly pleased, and he was wallowing in mortification.
The cook drew himself up in a smugly humble fashion, a deprecating smirk on his face.
She furiously lectures Ross on leaving the kids alone and in danger, while Sarah smugly enjoys her spot of sneaky sabotage.
No doubt they'll smugly trot out the old chestnut that they're doing their bit to save the planet by ditching gas-guzzling transport.
More needs to be done to prosecute those who do blatantly and smugly think they're above the law and continue to murder our beautiful wildlife.
According to preliminary report, a Kyrgyz citizen allegedly tried to smugly goods from Kyrgyzstan to Uzbekistan.
A man who devastated hundreds of lives and a woman who devastated hundreds of thousands of lives smugly sitting together in the same comfy parlour.
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