The simple statement was delivered with such smug certainty that it made Caroline's blood heat.

And when he talks politics, the smug certainties of the late 60's are gone.

The smug certainty the device would succeed was sobering in its cynical calculation.

This bear of a man clearly has no time for the smug certainties peddled by the top pop politicos.

It was the learned advisors to our funding sources, sitting in their smug certainty, who needed to go back and do "something useful."

It was so easy to become lost in the smug certainty that what happened to others really mattered very little to you.

What incensed Janson was the man's smug certainty that the ends always justified the means.

Jake smiled to himself; despite his smug certainties, Garak really knew very little about humans.

For you, my actions were nothing less than arrogance and a smug certainty that I was in the right to run roughshod over you.

It adds, with smug ivory-tower certainty, "The singular is, of course, medium."