Smug self-serving earnestness.
1 And so, men, drive your wives, beat them out of their self-consciousness and their soft smarminess and good, lovely idea of themselves.
2 They are stalked by a jigsaw-faced man who calls himself Stuntman Mike, played with grizzled smarminess by John Carpenter veteran Kurt Russell.
3 The thought of being subjected to his smarminess was simply too much to bear -and I lived here when Giuliani was mayor.
4 We have a vice of love, of softness and sweetness and smarminess and intimacy and promiscuous kindness and all that sort of thing.
5 'Ah, but you're not familiar with my background, James, my curriculum vitae.' The smile and the smarminess vanished.
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