Dictionary entry
Smarmier
Pronunciation
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Myanmar Meaning
(Adj[com]) smarmy
Definition
smarmy /'sm1:mi/ adj ( Brit infml derog ) မ်က္ႏွာလိုအားရ လုပ္ေသာ။ a smarmy salesman/smile.
Examples
- ‘Meet Tony
- smarmy chick-magnet
- Colin the computer nerd and Nodge the pseudo-intellectual.’
- ‘In those days
- he seemed like a smarmy dumb American
- but he's grown into the best actor of his generation.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Not nearly smarmy or nasty enough
- and the denouement is far too rushed and has no emotional impact whatsoever.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘Never mind that as he reads from the monitor
- Springer radiates smarmy insincerity.’
- ‘Most of it
- however
- sounds like last night's carnival
- a smarmy brand of entertainment
- too self satisfied to show real soul.’
- ‘Pretty
- sweet
- charming and as far from the slick
- besuited
- smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I had expected.’
- ‘Year in year out
- hairdresser after hairdresser couldn't resist giving her that daft coiffe
- those silly smarmy marmy waves.’
- ‘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.’
- ‘The way he was paraded round the country as part of the cornet-licking
- handholding
- smily-wily smarmy double act made me heave.’
- ‘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?’
- ‘Actually
- I suspect Skinner would be more interesting on his own
- when not playing half of a smarmy double-act.’
- ‘Some people said that he was smarmy but he wasn't at all.’
- ‘Some people might find it a little smarmy but it's very funny about publishing
- agents and publicists.’
- ‘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.’