Adjective, : the emcee with the smarmy welcome. From Dictionary.com.
I bet she'd swat that notion right down, and rather smarmily, too. From Wordnik.com. [Top Hillary Donor Directly Pressures Dean: "Exercise Some Leadership" On Florida And Michigan] Reference
And you smarmily call yourselves the “reality-based community.”. From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
You're forced to get that new Shareable PDA, smarmily branded as 2010's PartyPhone!. From Wordnik.com. [Richard Laermer: My List Of Next Year's "Predictions" (If Things Get Really Bad)] Reference
That sound like something Angely would smarmily warble, but it's the bloody State Motto, mind you. From Wordnik.com. [Poll: Tight Race In Ohio] Reference
Like many, I don't handle change well, especially if the manuf. is smarmily denying having changed it!. From Wordnik.com. [YesButNoButYes: The Cadbury Creme Egg Conspiracy] Reference
Eragon (smarmily close to "dragon") nurtures the female hatchling, forms a mental link with her, and names her Saphira. From Wordnik.com. [REVIEW: Eragon by Christopher Paolini] Reference
High-minded and self-important on the surface, smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard to the groin area. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
Simon notes that he's going hatless and being a bit smarmily please-the-parents-y: "I prefer the other side of you, to be honest.". From Wordnik.com. ["American Idol" -- it's "guys" night again.] Reference
Perhaps you would have found that out and had some meaningful dialogue with him were you not so eager to smarmily liken him to Ann Coulter. From Wordnik.com. [Feminism has made women less likely to be murdered] Reference
Personally, I like to know where I stand with my friends and I'd far rather write off an ex-friend than have a phony smarmily posing as a friend. From Wordnik.com. ["Afghanistan: in advance of the vote"] Reference
He told me that when he ordered a Perfect Manhattan that he would often get a frown back and the bartender would reply smarmily, "Well I'll try!!". From Wordnik.com. [Karl Kozel: The Art of the Manhattan (The Old School)] Reference
On MSNBC's Morning Joe, Joe Scarborough reviles Pelosi and hack Mayor Rudy Giuliani oozes smarmily how terrible she is for saying the brave people of the CIA lied. From Wordnik.com. [Nancy Pelosi; Courageous Hero] Reference
So instead of being smarmily dismissive of a documentary I haven't even seen yet, I can hope for the best and productively link to cool Native American film sites. From Wordnik.com. [Pen-Elayne on the Web] Reference
It's the same with Lieberman: objective analysis of reality reveals him to be a stooge of banking interests and Israel who has smarmily dissembled his way into power. From Wordnik.com. [Polls Contradict Rudy's Blue-State Claim] Reference
On my way out, I peeked over, and sure enough, there were now 4 guys around the girl, and I overheard one of them smarmily saying, "hey, it takes a lot to impress this girl!". From Wordnik.com. [misspinkkate Diary Entry] Reference
That would have gone down easier, say, a year from now, once Deitch were settled in and the gesture didn't seem so grossly silly, smarmily undignified, and consolation-prize-y. From Wordnik.com. [Peter Frank: Blague d'Art: Star Qualities] Reference
Sure, we have to deal with scheming, cowardly legislators who smarmily plan to keep the REpublicans looking bad -- and buy that strategy by avoiding prosecution of our nation's laws. From Wordnik.com. [Printing: American Freak-- Surgery and Other Treatments Needed] Reference
Even though the ceremony tends to be just as star-studded and smarmily self-congratulatory as the Oscars, the Awards themselves reward the type of artistic integrity Hammer values so strongly. From Wordnik.com. [Ballast Has Spirit, But Is it Too Independent for Oscar?: Julian Sancton] Reference
Now he's been given access to the manuscript before its scheduled publication, the encounter with which he smarmily describes as inducing "a numinous aura ... as if it were a newly discovered Dead Sea Scroll.". From Wordnik.com. [October 2009] Reference
Said the smarmily grinning little man in his uniform shorty-shorts. From Wordnik.com. [July 22nd, 2005] Reference
But it was also possible to be too young, too well turned out and smarmily demotic. From Wordnik.com. [The Guardian World News] Reference
Boy Wonder Lane Kiffin smarmily blamed the referees without actually saying so in the postgame presser. From Wordnik.com. Reference
Not to take sides, but before you go off and vote, you may want to watch this video of Greenspan smarmily defending his record. From Wordnik.com. [Gawker] Reference
Both J.K. Simmons and Zach Galifianakis amusingly turn up as people Bingham has to fire, and Jason Bateman smarmily plays Bingham's boss. From Wordnik.com. [Playback:stl Syndication] Reference
"I am sure that you will do a more than adequate job," said Brother Carlinus, smarmily, eliciting a two pairs of rolled eyes from Tyrone and the Shadow. From Wordnik.com. [The Seminal :: Independent Media And Politics] Reference
And I'd be embarrassed right down to my toes if I used a cheat sheet after smarmily referring to President Obama as a "charismatic guy with a teleprompter.". From Wordnik.com. [The Red and Black] Reference
I have one friend whom I have only once heard insist on her title, that was when some functionary at an airport smarmily asked if she prefered 'Mrs' or 'Ms'. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
Also when challenged as to whether Dion and Layton were not also family men, he smarmily sidestepped the question in such a way as to insinuate he didn't believe so. From Wordnik.com. [April Reign] Reference
Good on you namron, what struck me the most, is when she approached you and said smarmily, o.k. your here with your two year old, like you had no business bringing your kid with you. From Wordnik.com. [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] Reference
"And you smarmily call yourselves the “reality-based community.”. From Wordnik.com. [American Coastopia!] Reference
Played by a bronzed Justin Timberlake would say it: Slowly, deliberately, smarmily. From Wordnik.com. [The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com] Reference
The Clintons are "high minded" on the surface but "smarmily duplicitous underneath, meanwhile jabbing hard at the groin area. From Wordnik.com. [Breaking Up Is Hard to Do] Reference
There's something so piously, clammily, smarmily, smugly, unwholesomely, hypocritically ewwwww about the whole idea. From Wordnik.com. [No Sex Please, We're Gittish] Reference
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