Thesaurus: smug

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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. To make smug, or spruce. [Obs.] Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair. Dryton.
5. 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.
6. j:100 s. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction