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smug adjective [ smʌɡ ]

• having or showing an excessive pride in oneself or one's achievements.
• "he was feeling smug after his win"
Similar: self-satisfied, complacent, self-congratulatory, superior, puffed up, pleased with oneself, self-approving, well pleased, proud of oneself, goody-goody, I'm-all-right-Jack, wisenheimer, shit-eating,
Origin: mid 16th century (originally in the sense ‘neat, spruce’): from Low German smuk ‘pretty’.


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