smarmy
adjective
excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc..
smarminess
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a word derived from
smarmy.
Example Sentences
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Reynolds, who has the face and body of your standard hunky leading man, has the snarky delivery and inherent smarminess of a comic character actor.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 12, 2021
As a showman, Mr. Brown has none of the smarminess of Las Vegas prestidigitators or carnival hucksters.
From New York Times ● Sep. 15, 2019
The moral structure they produced has been vastly loosened and replaced with a soft, untheorized tendency toward niceness — smarminess, really, as journalist Tom Scocca put it in 2013.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 11, 2017
That way you wouldn't have had to lie to cover your golf smarminess.
From Golf Digest ● Feb. 11, 2015
It's like 'Couple's Retreat', but without the obvious yuck-yucks or smarminess.
From Time ● Aug. 7, 2012
