Definition of Smug

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Definition of Smug
	Smug Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. To make smug, or spruce. Related Definitions: Affectedly, And, Dress, Especially, In, Make, Neat, Nice, Or, Precise, Prim, Smooth, Smug, Spruce, To

Smug Quotations

For almost seventy years the life insurance industry has been a smug sacred cow feeding the public a steady line of sacred bull.
Ralph Nader

America is a hurricane, and the only people who do not hear the sound are those fortunate if incredibly stupid and smug White Protestants who live in the center, in the serene eye of the big wind.
Norman Mailer

In TV, and in particular in commercials, you don't really need to explain very much at all - you just say he's a spy and he's a little bit theatrical and overblown and smug and he's not very good at his job.
Rowan Atkinson

God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
Loren Eiseley

I think that London is very much like that. I find there's humour in the air and people are interesting. And I think that it's a place which is constantly surprising. The worst thing about it? I think it can be smug and aggressive.
Colin Firth

I don't want to sound smug but I am reasonably satisfied with how it's gone. I think it's fine.
Colin Firth

Too much good fortune can make you smug and unaware. Happiness should be like an oasis, the greener for the desert that surrounds it.
Rachel Field

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