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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of smug.

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Examples

  • Then we cut to Anne Robinson in the studio: ‘No, but we can’, she smugged.

    The Beeb's moral thoughtlessness 2009

  • Then we cut to Anne Robinson in the studio: ‘No, but we can’, she smugged.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • Then we cut to Anne Robinson in the studio: ‘No, but we can’, she smugged.

    Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me 2009

  • It was the smeared red lipstick, smugged black eye makeup and the sweaty looking tassle hair that made her look like she had been "doing something" that I questioned that being said if the kid didn't do something to cool their heels Disney would work that kid to death.

    Miley Cyrus: The Truth Is Unbearable. A Reasonable Perspective. TheShellyPalmerReport 2008

  • As it was radio for which he has a good face I couldn't tell whether he was blushing or smirking when he smugged wittily about the discl;osure of MPs second home allowances.

    Hugo 'Phonebox Spotter' Rifkind? 2008

  • I used to live in a place called Karama, its not exactly what you see in the photo or on the discovery channel, its home to the slums and ghetto folks, where lights on the hall way do not light up, where the wall, ceiling and floor are smells of leakage and covered with smugged yellow mist.

    Tetris Apartments 2007

  • I tried to visualise the map in my head but it came out all smugged -- all I could remember was that it was on roughly the same block as the Information Centre.

    "Anywhere around here doing a Jazz night?" 2004

  • Once he's got you under his thumb he don't give you half your makings, and, if you kick, he'll have you smugged.

    Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904

  • So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.

    Fantastic Fables Bierce, Ambrose, 1842-1914? 1899

  • So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.

    Fantastic Fables Ambrose Bierce 1878

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