0 the quality of being smug (= too pleased or satisfied about something):
It is a pity that they look back at those years with such insufferable smugness.
His expression altered completely from self-satisfied smugness to shock.
He was good at his job, though not as good as he thought he was, and his smugness irritated Wycliffe.
It wasn't smugness or arrogance. It was a quiet self-confidence.
Plodding past all the tour buses, I couldn't help but feel a certain smugness at arriving on foot.
