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Definition of smarmy in English: smarmyadjectivesmarmiest, smarmier ˈsmɑːmiˈsmɑrmi informal Ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is regarded as insincere or excessive. 〈非正式〉虚情假意的，奉承人的 一个虚情假意、油腔滑调的回复。 Example sentencesExamples - Marc's smarmy false congratulations are another reminder to Josie of his ability to destroy her bliss.
- How did a silly article by a smarmy TV presenter whom not very many people take seriously come to dominate the news?
- Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied.
- Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough, and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever.
- The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking, handholding, smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.
- Some people said that he was smarmy but he wasn't at all.
- Actually, I suspect Skinner would be more interesting on his own, when not playing half of a smarmy double-act.
- And yeah the characters can be annoying sometimes, but they're not nearly as smarmy as most other sitcoms, so it's ahead by default.
- Watch out for that extraordinary middle section, as Julie takes over the operatic role - and watch also for a rather smarmy peck on the shoulder at the end.
- Some people might find it a little smarmy but it's very funny about publishing, agents and publicists.
- Year in year out, hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe, those silly smarmy marmy waves.
- Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.
- In those days, he seemed like a smarmy dumb American, but he's grown into the best actor of his generation.
- Pretty, sweet, charming and as far from the slick, besuited, smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected.
- The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
- We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
- Most of it, however, sounds like last night's carnival, a smarmy brand of entertainment, too self satisfied to show real soul.
- Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters.
- He has almost no chance of winning my vote, out of principle more than anything else, however he's a good political performer, if a little smarmy.
- Meet Tony, smarmy chick-magnet, Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual.
Synonyms unctuous, ingratiating, smooth, slick, oily, greasy, fulsome, flattering, obsequious, sycophantic, fawning informal slimy, sucky, soapy
Derivativesadverb informal A visitor from California is Diana's brother, Adam, who is running for Congress, accompanied by his young, smarmily solicitous secretary, Jamie. Example sentencesExamples - They'll all be there with their snouts in the trough; all grinning smarmily and slapping backs; all trying to outdo each other with acts of screaming political correctness.
- And as far as Jay's statement in smarmily choosing to stereotype Christians, I choose to offer the other cheek.
- If you asked him anything at all, he would reply, smarmily, ‘Well, that is the question, isn't it?’
- Simon notes that he's going hatless and being a bit smarmily please-the-parents-y: ‘I prefer the other side of you, to be honest.’
- For eighty-six years the Sox bore the terrible curse - the burnt devil mark of the demon Yankees, smarmily collecting win upon win with a sense of bloated entitlement.
noun informal But setting his smarminess aside, the accuracy of his riff on Berger is actually apropos of the rest of his remarks. Example sentencesExamples - When she got home and switched on the TV, however, she found Al's audible substance diminished by his visible smarminess.
- You can't help but be engaged by the singer's growly, smoker's lung delivery or the band's all around smarminess.
- The two meet at a cocktail party where Tomlinson comes on strong, but has the pretty-boy good looks to float a smarminess that would earn your average guy an old fashioned slap in the face.
- But is anyone else finding the self-congratulatory smarminess of their fellow Australians as repulsive as I am?
Synonyms unctuousness, smoothness, slickness, oiliness, greasiness, fulsomeness, obsequiousness informal sliminess rare unctuosity
Rhymesarmy, balmy, barmy, gourami, macramé, origami, palmy, pastrami, salami, swami, tsunami, Yanomami Definition of smarmy in US English: smarmyadjectiveˈsmärmēˈsmɑrmi informal Ingratiating and wheedling in a way that is perceived as insincere or excessive. 〈非正式〉虚情假意的，奉承人的 一个虚情假意、油腔滑调的回复。 Example sentencesExamples - Year in year out, hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe, those silly smarmy marmy waves.
- Watch out for that extraordinary middle section, as Julie takes over the operatic role - and watch also for a rather smarmy peck on the shoulder at the end.
- The latter is different: barbed, energetic, smarmy, loud, dirty, assertive, insinuating.
- Never mind that as he reads from the monitor, Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.
- The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking, handholding, smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.
- Meet Tony, smarmy chick-magnet, Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual.
- Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters.
- Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied.
- Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough, and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever.
- Pretty, sweet, charming and as far from the slick, besuited, smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected.
- We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.
- Actually, I suspect Skinner would be more interesting on his own, when not playing half of a smarmy double-act.
- And yeah the characters can be annoying sometimes, but they're not nearly as smarmy as most other sitcoms, so it's ahead by default.
- Marc's smarmy false congratulations are another reminder to Josie of his ability to destroy her bliss.
- Some people said that he was smarmy but he wasn't at all.
- He has almost no chance of winning my vote, out of principle more than anything else, however he's a good political performer, if a little smarmy.
- Most of it, however, sounds like last night's carnival, a smarmy brand of entertainment, too self satisfied to show real soul.
- Some people might find it a little smarmy but it's very funny about publishing, agents and publicists.
- In those days, he seemed like a smarmy dumb American, but he's grown into the best actor of his generation.
- How did a silly article by a smarmy TV presenter whom not very many people take seriously come to dominate the news?
Synonyms unctuous, ingratiating, smooth, slick, oily, greasy, fulsome, flattering, obsequious, sycophantic, fawning
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