smug about
Frequency: 7.09.8 per million words
Feeling self-satisfied regarding a specific thing.
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Examples (10)
- What are you looking so smug about?
- She was incredibly smug about her victory in the competition.
- Don't be so smug about your intelligence; humility is a virtue.
- He always acts smug about his superior knowledge of history.
- They felt quite smug about their early completion of the project.
- You shouldn't be so smug about your financial success; circumstances change.
- Despite her efforts, she couldn't help but feel smug about her rival's failure.
- The professor was smug about his groundbreaking research.
- I find his smug attitude about his knowledge quite irritating.
- Why are you so smug about solving that puzzle so quickly?