(disapproving) looking or feeling too pleased about sth you have done or achieved:
a smug expression / smile / face * What are you looking so smug about?
smugly adverb:
He smiled smugly as the results were announced.
smugness noun [U]:
There was a hint of smugness in her voice.
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
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This entry for smug is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is smug a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, smug is tagged as adjective.
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