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Significats de smarminess en anglès

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Smug self-serving earnestness.

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Examples for "unction"
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In that time I must receive the extreme unction of the Church.
Legends and Tales
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A person thus set apart receives the unction of the Holy One.
Gathering Jewels / The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam o...
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The President pronounced the last sentence with oratorical unction, and around him.
The Second Deluge
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And I was certainly not the last to begin-especially at extreme unction.
The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as...
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You can put more savor and unction into it than I can.
The Shadow of the North: A Story of Old New York and a Lost Camp...
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From the beginning, she had ignored a certain oiliness in his voice.
The Secret Eleanor
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For the first week without bathing, the skin's oiliness remained constant.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
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If correctly mixed, the emulsion, on cooling, will adhere without oiliness to glass.
Gardening Indoors and Under Glass / A Practical Guide to the Pla...
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The oiliness, the public theft, the cowardice, the welter of sin!
On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
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Steward, for looking us up, the Jew took up the idea with insulting oiliness.
Michael, Brother of Jerry
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At Strouther and Streckfuss's, Mr. Strouther came up and said with reeking unctuousness:
Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents
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A mixture of creepy unctuousness and childhood regression to Mummy.
The Guardian
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In a flat voice stripped of its former unctuousness, he said, "Is this really necessary?"
Bundori
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He smiled as he spoke with the unctuousness of a villain administering poison in a bouquet of roses.
Erik Dorn
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Brother Baker's unctuousness angered Bud Perkins.
The Court of Boyville
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Capital berated Bonbright; labor was inclined to fulsomeness.
Youth Challenges
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If this were flattery, tone and manner robbed it of fulsomeness, rendered it subtle beyond the coarser perceptions of the man.
The False Faces: Further Adventures from the History of the Lone...
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The Chancellor's sense of proportion is curious, but may perhaps be condoned as of a piece with the fulsomeness of the day.
Life of Edward Earl of Clarendon — Volume 02
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He was savouring to its utmost fulsomeness the supremest joy which animal man can ever know-thejoy of looking on a fallen enemy.
El Dorado: An Adventure of the Scarlet Pimpernel
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Cecil Rhodes, of course, had declared himself officially in accord with the High Commissioner, and even praised him to a degree of fulsomeness.
Cecil Rhodes, Man and Empire-Maker
Ús de smarminess en anglès
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And so, men, drive your wives, beat them out of their self-consciousness and their soft smarminess and good, lovely idea of themselves.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
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They are stalked by a jigsaw-faced man who calls himself Stuntman Mike, played with grizzled smarminess by John Carpenter veteran Kurt Russell.
Reuters
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The thought of being subjected to his smarminess was simply too much to bear -and I lived here when Giuliani was mayor.
The Guardian
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We have a vice of love, of softness and sweetness and smarminess and intimacy and promiscuous kindness and all that sort of thing.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
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'Ah, but you're not familiar with my background, James, my curriculum vitae.' The smile and the smarminess vanished.
Carte Blanche
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Smarminess a través del temps