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smarm
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Word definitions for smarm in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm [syn: unction , fulsomeness ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. smarmy language or behavior vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To fawn, to be unctuous. 2 (context transitive English) To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1914, from colloquial verb smalm , smarm "to smear, bedaub" (the hair, with pomade), 1847, of unknown origin, perhaps somehow suggestive of the action. Verbal meaning "to smear with flattery" is from 1902.
Usage examples of smarm.
Mark Antony, Lucius himself, Dolabella, and four minions who included the Liberator Caesennius Lento, busy smarming to Antony.
You have probably heard that our mutual friend Gaius Verres succeeded in smarming up to the electorate and the lot officials so successfully that he is urban praetor.
Typical of Cicero, to prefer a smarming nonentity like Gaius Pomptinus to his own brother.
Out there in our chalk-whitened togas smarming to the voters, promising them the world, lying and smiling.
Sam Bowles came smarming in, wriggling his whole body like a whipped dog to ingratiate himself with his captain.
Then he was back to smiling and smarming, his cigar never once leaving the corner of his mouth during the discourse.
And visits my wife, if you please, smarming up to her in the most nauseating way.
Bill smarmed insincerely, with visions of weeks of no duty, months of lolling around, years of recuperation.