1 " Just look at me ", she said smugly.

2 He smiled smugly as the results were announced.

3 She laughed, squirmed free, grinding down on him smugly.

4 A tureen of Technicolor sprouts looked at her smugly.

5 The Democrats, now smugly confident, may start to bicker among themselves.

6 I shall bask smugly in your reflected glory - but don't worry!

7 It can not just point smugly to the late-flowering green shoots of recovery and wait for economic summer to arrive.

8 Smugly repaired, it was on the wet homeward trip that I got my comeuppance.

9 The adornment, thought Eloise smugly, would not sit well amidst so much blubber.

10 Blanche did not like the chief superintendent glowing smugly over her mistake.

11 The Major smiled smugly and sat down.

12 The cab driver thought smugly.

13 The servant was smugly pleased.

14 Ammer: [ smugly ] Then you better get started.

15 Even the sunniest, most smugly organic person starts feeling a bit beleaguered after a while.

16 He could laugh good - naturedly, a little smugly , at whatever was conspicuous.

17 He smiled smugly to himself as he raised the bet by fifty pounds.

18 Corell said, a little smugly, " We have defeated them. "

19 Meanwhile, the application smugly tells the user that the function was canceled.

20 At the Pentagon, however, senior naval officials appear smugly confident that the Chinese would turn tail once the U. S. carriers show up like the cavalry.

21 Smiling smugly at the cabin ceiling, Hsin - mei said, " Not necessarily.

22 Or it can continue smugly along , confident that it will get there eventually - but 20 years late.

23 "I own three cars and two boats, " he said smugly.

24 It is not always easy to avoid writing a shade smugly about the arrangements Mozart made of choral works by Handel.

25 The young butterfly who masters the technique of flying plays naughtily on the back of the dragonfly. A little while later, she tries to stand at the nose bridge of the dragonfly and smiles smugly.

26 The central meaning shared by these adjectives is insincerely, self - servingly, or smugly agreeable or earnest ""

27 People, of course, always ask me about it, and that gives me a chance to evangelize about veganism (while they smugly wave a greasy burger in front of my face).

28 Fan Po - wen spoke slowly with a feminine lilt in his voice, and his face beamed smugly.