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Significados de smarm em inglês

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Excessive but superficial compliments given with affected charm.

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Examples for "unction"
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...
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...
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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
Uso de smarm em inglês
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There was something about this guy that set off her smarm alert, big-time.
Nevermore
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Photo: Andrew Burr The humid smarm that accompanies summertime in Virginia stuck to every ounce of my body.
Climbing Magazine
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It is wrong to make sex appear as if it were part of the dear-darling-love smarm: the spiritual love.
Fantasia of the Unconscious
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Tom Mothersdale glides effortlessly between charm and smarm: can anyone have thrown up on stage with such astonished aplomb?
The Guardian
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Florence is so nicely rounded you can't help but warm to her immediately, and Rory's drippy smarm oozes from the page.
Independent.ie
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Why do we persist in propping up this peculiar tradition through hate-watching, feigned outrage, smarm, and incessant armchair quarterbacking the day after?
The Guardian
7
The same recorded voice smarmed the same directive.
206 Bones
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She beckoned imperiously to a figure at the bar, and the owner of the place came smarming forward to join us.
The Bride Wore Black Leather
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"Don't smarm, you smug little bastard," Bloxham burst out.
Imajica: Complete Edition
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"I didn't mean to interrupt your workout, mate," Luster said, all bullshit charm and smarm.
Shades of gray
Colocações frequentes
Translations for smarm
Smarm ao longo do tempo