To allow him to alter his smug arrogance or be blown to hell.

It smacked of a smug arrogance, said one analyst.

Your colonial hero will face the desperate chance of death; but not the smug arrogance of a beliveried flunkey.

She'd always known he'd done it, too; his smug arrogance in thinking he'd gotten away with it was his downfall.

Once large and healthy, ripe with smug arrogance, he now looked smaller, frailer, his eyes dull and his posture stooped.