smugness

smugness
Synonyms and related words:
Quakerishness, amour-propre, autoeroticism, blandness, bovinity, butter, censoriousness, complacence, complacency, consequentiality, demureness, demurity, ego trip, fair words, false modesty, fulsomeness, glibness, hideboundness, honeyed words, incense, mauvaise honte, narcism, narcissism, narrowness, oiliness, overmodesty, overproudness, overweening pride, priggishness, primness, prudery, prudishness, puritanicalness, sanctimoniousness, sanctimony, self-admiration, self-approbation, self-complacency, self-congratulation, self-content, self-contentedness, self-delight, self-endearment, self-esteem, self-gratulation, self-importance, self-infatuation, self-love, self-respect, self-satisfaction, self-sufficiency, self-worship, smoothness, soft soap, soft words, stiff-neckedness, straitlacedness, stuffiness, suaveness, suavity, sweet talk, sweet words, unctuousness, vaingloriousness, vainglory, vainness, vanity

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  • Smugness — Smug ness, n. The quality or state of being smug. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • smugness — index pride Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • smugness — smug ► ADJECTIVE (smugger, smuggest) ▪ irritatingly pleased with oneself; self satisfied. DERIVATIVES smugly adverb smugness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «neat, spruce»; from Low German smuk pretty …   English terms dictionary

  • smugness — noun see smug …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • smugness — See smugly. * * * …   Universalium

  • smugness — noun a) The state or quality of being smug. b) The result or product of being smug …   Wiktionary

  • smugness — n. quality of being smug, quality of being self satisfied, complacency …   English contemporary dictionary

  • smugness — smug·ness …   English syllables

  • smugness — See: smug …   English dictionary

  • smugness — noun an excessive feeling of self satisfaction • Derivationally related forms: ↑smug • Hypernyms: ↑complacency, ↑complacence, ↑self complacency, ↑self satisfaction …   Useful english dictionary

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