Phony flattery

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.