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What is the adjective for smug?

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Included below are past participle and present participle forms for the verb smug which may be used as adjectives within certain contexts.

smug
  1. Irritatingly pleased with oneself, offensively self-complacent. self-satisfied.
  2. (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
  3. Synonyms:
      4. conceited, pompous, proud, vainglorious, egotistical, vain, egoistic, egotistic, overweening, egoistical, complacent, bigheaded, important, prideful, arrogant, assured, biggity, biggety, swellheaded, haughty, consequential, superior, snobbish, priggish, wisenheimer, stuffy, hotshot, self-satisfied, self-important, stuck-up, self-conceited, self-opinionated, self-righteous, puffed up, goody-goody, self-congratulatory, holier-than-thou, pleased with oneself, self-approving, puffed-up, full of yourself, well pleased, self-assured, proud of oneself, self-contented, stuck on oneself, cocky, presumptuous, supercilious, pretentious … more
  4. Examples:
      5. “He winked at me, and I wanted to knock out a few teeth in that smug smile he flashed at me.”
      “It was a smug room, books lining the walls and suffocating one with implied prestige and eminence.”
smugger
  1. comparative form of smug: more smug
  2. Synonyms:
      3. prouder, vainer, haughtier, stuffier, more conceited, more pompous, more vainglorious, more egotistical, more egoistic, more egotistic, more overweening, more egoistical, more complacent, more bigheaded, more important, more prideful, more arrogant, more assured, more biggity, more biggety, more swellheaded, more consequential, more snobbish, more priggish, more hotshot, more self-satisfied, more self-important, more stuck-up, more self-conceited, more self-righteous, more puffed up, more self-congratulatory, more self-assured, more stuck on oneself, cockier, more presumptuous, more supercilious, more pretentious, more bumptious, snootier, uppitier, more uppish, lordlier, more swaggering, more boastful, loftier, more overbearing, more cavalier, more overconfident, more disdainful … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “The endlessly irritating rugger smugger Matt Dawson and blonde blandshell Lisa Faulkner just didn't cut it for me.”
      “As he laid the final square of turf, Seb Coe was looking smugger than if he'd lapped Steve Ovett.”
      “Every time I see him interviewed, Gervais is smugger and smirkier.”
smuggest
  1. superlative form of smug: most smug
  2. Synonyms:
      3. proudest, vainest, haughtiest, stuffiest, most conceited, most pompous, most vainglorious, most egotistical, most egoistic, most egotistic, most overweening, most egoistical, most complacent, most bigheaded, most important, most prideful, most arrogant, most assured, most biggity, most biggety, most swellheaded, most consequential, most snobbish, most priggish, most hotshot, most self-satisfied, most self-important, most stuck-up, most self-conceited, most self-righteous, most puffed up, most self-congratulatory, most self-assured, most stuck on oneself, cockiest, most presumptuous, most supercilious, most pretentious, most bumptious, snootiest, uppitiest, most uppish, lordliest, most swaggering, most boastful, loftiest, most overbearing, most cavalier, most overconfident, most disdainful … more
  3. Examples:
      4. “Why not pick up a copy of the Sunday Times and read about the smuggest moneybags in Britain?”
      “The absence from your life of the five smuggest, most punchable faces ever to be seated before cameras will cut your daily profanity output by a third.”
      “And please get rid of Iain Duncan Smith, as he has to be the smuggest minister in living memory.”
smugged
  1. simple past tense and past participle of smug
smugging
  1. present participle of smug
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