smugness

But the word is not without its own sense of smugness.

He wants us to love him for everything, including his smugness.

If the smugness was deliberate, what were we being set up for?

I'm not sure I like the smugness of that smile, my love.

There was something in that she did not like; some smugness; the friend who knew better, perhaps.

Smugness had never been one of her favorite characteristics in others.

Smiling with smugness, he walked over to the window and looked out.

I placed my shoes against the wall with a certain smugness.

It is as if the city had gone from oppression to smugness in one step.

I began to wear a new morality with a smugness.

She could hear the smugness in his voice but didn't mind a bit.

I know this post is old, but shocked at the smugness of people.

There was no smugness in his tone, only cold, hard truth.

Without a hint of smugness, I put the fellow in his place.

"Everything is in order," he said, his anger turned to smugness.

A few days in the wild would strip away all that smugness.

But what's added here is a kind of diminutive smugness.

Those of us who are fit might be tempted toward smugness about running in the heat.

There was no trace of smugness in his voice or expression.

The money would be there, without any of the sticky smugness that made it hard to take.

There was an irritating smugness about the way he said it.

"There's a smugness that goes with being a huge company.

"Only because you're wrong," Honor informed him with a certain smugness.

He looked at her then, a hint of smugness playing about his lips.

By the smugness of her expression, it was clear that she assumed no such thing.