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In a way that shows excessive pride in oneself
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smugly
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Word definitions for smugly in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adv. in a smug manner; "the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smugly \Smug"ly\, adv. In a smug manner. [R.] --Gay.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
adv. In a self-satisfied manner.
Usage examples of smugly.
Smugly I marvelled at his transparency, his flickering, flinching transparency.
She told the others what we had discovered during homeroom, which produced a considerable amount of outrage from all except Sherwood, who looked smugly amused.
Gwai Lan turned, smugly, to Wing, who stood in stark terror, not at the wife of Fei Hung, but his own spouse, who was now angrily looking at her husband and her friend.
Malcenas said, smugly aware that the wealthy proprietor of the ludus had fixed his attention on that defiant German.
Old Father rather smugly reached into the bowl and placed a shraddha seed into his mouth.
Katriona had announced smugly the last time the police had picked her up and Janice had known that she was pleased by their inability to do anything.
Smugly, she started around the base of Tom Woth, headed back toward the south edge of the island.
Stepping around the table, Yeddo was still a constant threat, even when he smugly indicated the sprawled figure on the floor.
One time, not too many months earlier, when there was mention of the hidden Elfstones, Brin had caught Jair smiling rather smugly.
She smiled down at the talkative soldier and Prew thought he had never seen such a smugly talkative soldier.
All of them, excepting Prew, laughed, even Billy laughed, and Angelo seated on his perch grinned as smugly as the parrot who has just four-letter-worded the old maid out of the room in the cartoon.
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.
While at the front of his brain he was smugly content, in the back room where the bad things were brewed up his thoughts were worriting away at some anomaly.
They had no method of assessing antisubmarine attacks, and smugly assumed that they were sinking a United States submarine whenever they attacked one.
From a ratty film poster a life-size Bollywood star grinned smugly at the rickety iron bed, the mattress stained with subcontinents.