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  1. 1. a. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. Source: opted
  2. 2. v. t. To make smug, or spruce. Source: opted
  3. 3. adj. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction Source: wordnet
  4. 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. Source: webster
  5. 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. Source: adambom
  6. 6. j:100 s. marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction Source: ecdict

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