Smarmy

Definition

smarmy /'sm1:mi/ adj ( Brit infml derog ) မ်က္ႏွာလိုအားရ လုပ္ေသာ။ a smarmy salesman/smile.

Examples

1. ‘Meet Tony
2. smarmy chick-magnet
3. Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual.’
4. ‘In those days
5. he seemed like a smarmy dumb American
6. but he's grown into the best actor of his generation.’
7. ‘Watch out for that extraordinary middle section
8. as Julie takes over the operatic role - and watch also for a rather smarmy peck on the shoulder at the end.’
9. ‘Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough
10. and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever.’
11. ‘Eating is done in tacky gondolier-a-go-go joints with a floorshow of stunned lobsters and smarmy waiters.’
12. ‘Don't vote for some smarmy career-men in suits who buckle like paper cups the second the slightest pressure is applied.’
13. ‘The latter is different: barbed
14. energetic
15. smarmy
16. loud
17. dirty
18. assertive
19. insinuating.’
20. ‘We were led upstairs
21. extremely exhausted
22. to the smarmy commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.’
23. ‘Never mind that as he reads from the monitor
24. Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.’
25. ‘Most of it
26. however
27. sounds like last night's carnival
28. a smarmy brand of entertainment
29. too self satisfied to show real soul.’
30. ‘Pretty
31. sweet
32. charming and as far from the slick
33. besuited
34. smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected.’
35. ‘Year in year out
36. hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe
37. those silly smarmy marmy waves.’
38. ‘And yeah the characters can be annoying sometimes
39. but they're not nearly as smarmy as most other sitcoms
40. so it's ahead by default.’
41. ‘The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking
42. handholding
43. smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.’
44. ‘Marc's smarmy false congratulations are another reminder to Josie of his ability to destroy her bliss.’
45. ‘How did a silly article by a smarmy TV presenter whom not very many people take seriously come to dominate the news?’
46. ‘Actually
47. I suspect Skinner would be more interesting on his own
48. when not playing half of a smarmy double-act.’
49. ‘Some people said that he was smarmy but he wasn't at all.’
50. ‘Some people might find it a little smarmy but it's very funny about publishing
51. agents and publicists.’
52. ‘He has almost no chance of winning my vote
53. out of principle more than anything else
54. however he's a good political performer
55. if a little smarmy.’