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 college basketball season has begun under two odiferous clouds, making it reasonable to wonder why this athletic appendage of higher education seems so susceptible to smarminess.

From Washington Post • Nov. 24, 2017

That way you wouldn't have had to lie to cover your golf smarminess.

From Golf Digest • Feb. 11, 2015

Or maybe some smarminess in the vein of Couple’s Retreat.

From Time • Aug. 7, 2012