Crossword-Solution: SMUGNESS
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Smugness | n. | The quality or state of being smug. |
We have 6 clues for the answer “SMUGNESS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Great self-contentment | 1 answer |
| Overconfident nature | 1 answer |
| Excessive pride | 4 answers |
| overconfidence | 4 answers |
| Gloating | 6 answers |
| complacency | 25 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SMUGNESS (5)
The stiff yellowish-stucco pilasters of this entrance, and the tall uniformed figure of the porter in the shadow, came into the picture as he observed it; they gave forth a suggestion of satisfied smugness--of orderly but altogether unillumined routine.
They _hadn’t_ a low mind—nor any approach to one; yet incontestably they had worked, and with a certain smugness, on a basis that might be turned against them.
And now, it can be straightened out and the Dorns will be all the better for not having been tempted in the days when it might have ruined them." She had walked round where her father could see her, as she delivered herself of this speech so redolent of the fumes of collegiate smugness.
She believed she could endure perhaps better than could girls with more false pride, with more awe of snobbish conventionalities--at least she could try to endure--the superciliousness, the patronizing airs, the petty restraints and oppressions, the nauseating smugness, the constant prying and peeping, the hypocritical lectures, the heavy doses of smug morality.
Round the door lounged three strangers--stout, well-armed fellows, whose bearing, as they loitered and chattered, suggested a curious mixture of smugness and independence.
Quotes with SMUGNESS (3)
Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and saf…
Most animals show themselves sparingly. The grizzly bear is six to eight hundred pounds of smugness. It has no need to hide. If it were a person, it would laugh loudly in quiet restaurants, boastfully wear the wrong clothes for special occasions, and probably play hockey.
You’re a talking cat?” Endora asked with a look of disbelief on her face.“My, my, my, aren’t you the bright bulb of the bunch,” he replied with a bit of snarky smugness. “Tell me then, bright-bulb, do you suppose that I need your permission to talk just because I’m a cat?” He raised his paw to his face, admiring his newly gnawed manicure. After he observed the last nail, he slapped his paw down on the floorboards, making a low thud sound. “Because I don’t,” he smirked. Endora…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: CrosSynergy, Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 4 times in crossword archives (2001–2021).