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What does smugness mean?

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Noun
  1. (uncountable) The state or quality of being smug.
  2. (countable) The result or product of being smug.
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Bill's smugness is in full swing here, and thankfully is toned down in later performances.
Moretti handles the material with considerable grace and skill, though the smugness and solipsism of his screen persona occasionally grates.
Appalled by smugness and self-satisfaction, he simply could not bear to see an Irish institution go unchallenged.
This film has not a trace of smugness, or the superiority of moral virtue which is blind to reality.
If you don't get a handle on that insufferable smugness of yours, you'll grow up to be just like that name-dropping skite on the radio.
Watching it, I found myself quietly appalled by the smugness, condescension and bogus rhetoric on display.

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