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smug

[smuhg]
–adjective, smug⋅ger, smug⋅gest.
1. contentedly confident of one's ability, superiority, or correctness; complacent.
2. trim; spruce; smooth; sleek.

Origin:
1545–55; perh. < MD smuc neat, pretty, nice


smugly, adverb
smugness, noun
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smug   (smŭg)   
adj.   smug·ger, smug·gest
Exhibiting or feeling great or offensive satisfaction with oneself or with one's situation; self-righteously complacent: "the smug look of a toad breakfasting on fat marsh flies" (William Pearson).

[Perhaps akin to Low German smuck, neat, from Middle Low German, from smucken, to adorn.]
smug'ly adv., smug'ness n.
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