If community college officials sound a bit smug these days, they have reason.

But any transgressive thrills stop short of the songs, which sound smug and secondhand.

In striking back at her critics, Madonna simply sounds self-righteous and smug.

To get the caveats out of the way: from time to time, the book can sound self-congratulatory and smug.

The blade sounded very smug, and well she should be!

Why do people in public life always sound so smug and superior?

As he was already mounted, he sounded a trifle smug.

He said this was an emergency, but he sounded so damned smug.

Graff sounded more smug than desperate, but certainly desperate enough.

It sounds smug and priggish, but the change all round, myself included, is, I believe, for the better.