smarmy
- excessively or unctuously flattering, ingratiating, servile, etc.: the emcee with the smarmy welcome.
Origin of smarmy
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Contemporary Examples of smarmy
Thomas Sadoski should be the frontrunner to play every smarmy privileged thirty-something from now on.
King Smarmy Bill, Queen Smug Chilary, and Princess Spolied Chlesea [sic].
Brad is a smarmy, popular jerk, without whom Adam would have no credibility with the cool kids.
From suave Jack Ryan to smarmy Eugene Kittridge, potential candidates for America's next top spook.
10 Fictional Replacements for CIA Chief David PetraeusBen Teitelbaum, Laura Colarusso
November 10, 2012
And anyway they just open themselves up to obvious charges of being dishonest and smarmy (at best).
Historical Examples of smarmy
If she thinks him too sweet and smarmy with other people, she should let him have it to his nose, straight out.
Fantasia of the UnconsciousD. H. Lawrence
They lipsynch the soundtrack, cadge souvenirs and pester you with smarmy, show-off questions.
Down and Out in the Magic KingdomCory Doctorow
We'd have four good meals every day and baths every morning, and we'd only feel virtuous and 'smarmy' and do-good-to-the-poor-y.
Changing WindsSt. John G. Ervine
smarmy
- British informal obsequiously flattering or unpleasantly suave