Term Gallery logo

Significados de smarminess en inglés

catalán
untuositat
español
exagerado elogio

Smug self-serving earnestness.

        exagerado elogio
        Sinónimos
        Examples for "unction"
        Examples for "unction"
        1
        In that time I must receive the extreme unction of the Church.
        Legends and Tales
        2
        A person thus set apart receives the unction of the Holy One.
        Gathering Jewels / The Secret of a Beautiful Life: In Memoriam o...
        3
        The President pronounced the last sentence with oratorical unction, and around him.
        The Second Deluge
        4
        And I was certainly not the last to begin-especially at extreme unction.
        The Life of Lazarillo of Tormes: His Fortunes and Misfortunes as...
        5
        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...
        1
        From the beginning, she had ignored a certain oiliness in his voice.
        The Secret Eleanor
        2
        For the first week without bathing, the skin's oiliness remained constant.
        Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
        3
        If correctly mixed, the emulsion, on cooling, will adhere without oiliness to glass.
        Gardening Indoors and Under Glass / A Practical Guide to the Pla...
        4
        The oiliness, the public theft, the cowardice, the welter of sin!
        On Nothing & Kindred Subjects
        5
        Steward, for looking us up, the Jew took up the idea with insulting oiliness.
        Michael, Brother of Jerry
        1
        At Strouther and Streckfuss's, Mr. Strouther came up and said with reeking unctuousness:
        Mrs. Budlong's Christmas Presents
        2
        A mixture of creepy unctuousness and childhood regression to Mummy.
        The Guardian
        3
        In a flat voice stripped of its former unctuousness, he said, "Is this really necessary?"
        Bundori
        4
        He smiled as he spoke with the unctuousness of a villain administering poison in a bouquet of roses.
        Erik Dorn
        5
        Brother Baker's unctuousness angered Bud Perkins.
        The Court of Boyville
        1
        Capital berated Bonbright; labor was inclined to fulsomeness.
        Youth Challenges
        2
        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...
        3
        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
        4
        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
        5
        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
        Uso de smarminess en inglés
        1
        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
        2
        They are stalked by a jigsaw-faced man who calls himself Stuntman Mike, played with grizzled smarminess by John Carpenter veteran Kurt Russell.
        Reuters
        3
        The thought of being subjected to his smarminess was simply too much to bear -and I lived here when Giuliani was mayor.
        The Guardian
        4
        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
        5
        'Ah, but you're not familiar with my background, James, my curriculum vitae.' The smile and the smarminess vanished.
        Carte Blanche
        Translations for smarminess
        catalán
        untuositat
        Smarminess a través del tiempo