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Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

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  1. a. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
  2. v. t. To make smug, or spruce.
  3. adj. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction
  4. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce;affectedly precise; smooth and prim.They be so smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia).The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey.A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau & Fl.
  5. j:100 s. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction