Fortis must be feeling a little smug too.
You might think that would make them feel rather smug about themselves.
Connor A very different writer, but Flannery O'Connor has a book called Revelations which is about this very smug person, "Thank goodness, I'm not white trash."
In a now widely circulated statement released by her publisher, she writes, "There's no such thing as originality anyway, just authenticity," an awfully smug assertion for someone in her position.
You've got nothing to be smug about.
Subj: I'd say I told you so if it didn't sound so smug.
"But the reason why I took it personally," Rachel counters, "was this smug belief they had that they would make millions of dollars out of us."
No reason to feel smug there.
Swedes often draw lessons from past success (this can make them sound smug).
Not only are the smug marrieds laughing up their sleeves at those who are alone and lonely, but they're also casually burning fivers because they've got so much more money than those solitary souls.
He needn't be so smug, I know something he didn't know.
Their smiles seem smug.
Once the very model of a modern major power—stable, rich and smug—it appears beset now by political and economic instability and by civil unrest and disorder.
You may not like them, but it appears' smug marrieds' have a good reason to feel pleased with themselves.
I arrive at work with a smug smile on my face (though guiltily note that this also means I'm off the hook at bedtime, having done the day's deed already).
Users of other languages shouldn't be too smug, though.
The smug guy with the beer and the cigarette?
