0 the quality of being smug (= too pleased or satisfied about something): --
His expression altered completely from self-satisfied smugness to shock.
It is a pity that they look back at those years with such insufferable smugness.
Plodding past all the tour buses, I couldn't help but feel a certain smugness at arriving on foot.
It wasn't smugness or arrogance. It was a quiet self-confidence.
He was good at his job, though not as good as he thought he was, and his smugness irritated Wycliffe.
NYA ORD
European
May 10, 2021
DAGENS ORD
Shimmer
smugness