Meanings of smug complacency in English

The look of smug complacency on Emerson's face caused my temper to snap.

She bought gold stockings and gold shoes, and her panic changed to smug complacency.

He felt his eyes glaze over in smug complacency.

The keen, hard eyes of Dinsmore took in the smug complacency of the handsome young cad.

The kind old world spins on, and the bourgeois masters clip their coupons in smug complacency.

You show the smug complacency of your nation.

Sunk in a cocoon of smug complacency, they are blind to their own clichéd Rousseauist ideology.

Hartung's interpretation of the Bible suggests that it offers no grounds for such smug complacency among Christians.

Their smug complacency was suddenly changed into dismay when they were abruptly told that they were prisoners.

But beyond pleasure to the eye and perhaps a smug complacency in its possession, there is nothing else.

The fakery, the racism, the smug complacency, the acres of newsprint that could be devoted to something more interesting.

It never really addresses problems of 20th-century industrial decay, because of smug complacency fostered by victories in two world wars.

And the fire was burning away the smug complacency which had come to him during his long life in the valley.

That the religion of Jesus was a purely reactionary movement, suggested by the smug complacency and voluptuous condition of the times, most thinking men agree.