Exempel på smugly

• Instead of a frank admission of failure, he has smugly tried to justify his actions since he has been in his present office.

• We believe, perhaps slightly smugly, that we have the best legal system in the world.

• Therefore, let us not sit smugly back and talk about peace dividends in the middle of a whirlpool.

• They have looked on smugly while they have been in receipt of the protection money of potential votes in urban marginal seats.

• It is facile to assume that they are fat and complacent, relying smugly on past laurels.

• But we tend to accept that all too smugly as a self-evident proposition, without requiring positive proof of it.

• There is no use coming here year after year smugly and complacently making a speech or completely ignoring what is being done in foreign countries.

• I stress that none of this is said smugly.

• But we do love animals and, without being smugly self-satisfied.

• I do not believe that we can smugly accept that everyone comes in here exclusively or predominantly to serve either his constituents or the country.

• It is not enough to sit smugly here and accept what is happening now.

• That does not mean that our stance is unreasoning or that we are smugly satisfied with present arrangements.

• You should make sure that you are better informed, instead of sitting shuffling papers and smugly concluding that on paper everything looks just fine.

• There is no point in sitting there smugly saying no if he cannot give us the information.

• We do not hear about men having illegitimate children, only women, and how often men smugly talk about fallen women.