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Wiktionary4.4 / 5 votes

  1. smugadjective

    Synonyms:
    self-satisfied, complacent

  2. smugadjective

    Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

    Kate looked extremely smug this morning.

    Synonyms:
    self-satisfied, complacent

Princeton's WordNet1.5 / 2 votes

  1. smug, self-satisfiedadjective

    marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction

    "a smug glow of self-congratulation"

    Synonyms:
    smug, self-satisfied, complacent, self-complacent

    Antonyms:
    discontented, discontent

Dictionary of English Synonymes1.0 / 1 vote

  1. smugadjective

    Synonyms:
    nice, spruce, trim, neat

PPDB, the paraphrase database4.0 / 1 vote

  1. List of paraphrases for "smug":

    petulant, narrow-minded

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  1. David Pilgrim:

    Americans like happy history—narratives that make us look smart, brave, and exceptional. We want a history that has been cherry-picked, one that ignores our mistreatment of the weak and disfavored—a history that can be celebrated at picnics, parades, and in smug conversations. This approach to history is neither honest nor mature.

  2. Eugene B. Sledge:

    You smug-faced crowds with kindling eye Who cheer when soldier lads march by, Sneak home and pray you’ll never know The hell where youth and laughter go.

  3. Jason Hayes:

    Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor're more in danger from an advancing front of smug than Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor are any sort of climate change or anything like that, because these sorts of decisions to go 100 % electric at the same time as Ann Arbor Mayor Christopher Taylor're shutting down everything that's reliable in terms of electricity production — that's just plain dangerous.


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