Meanings of smarm in English

There was something about this guy that set off her smarm alert, big-time.

Photo: Andrew Burr The humid smarm that accompanies summertime in Virginia stuck to every ounce of my body.

It is wrong to make sex appear as if it were part of the dear-darling-love smarm: the spiritual love.

Tom Mothersdale glides effortlessly between charm and smarm: can anyone have thrown up on stage with such astonished aplomb?

Florence is so nicely rounded you can't help but warm to her immediately, and Rory's drippy smarm oozes from the page.

Why do we persist in propping up this peculiar tradition through hate-watching, feigned outrage, smarm, and incessant armchair quarterbacking the day after?

The same recorded voice smarmed the same directive.

She beckoned imperiously to a figure at the bar, and the owner of the place came smarming forward to join us.

"Don't smarm, you smug little bastard," Bloxham burst out.

"I didn't mean to interrupt your workout, mate," Luster said, all bullshit charm and smarm.