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?