On the instant those at the table were keyed up and expectant, the servant was smugly pleased, and he was wallowing in mortification.
And when they have crept into their own little holes, and smugly laid themselves down in their last long sleep, the future centuries will roll the stone away and he will come forth again.
These people had covered all his ground--and they had gone exploring further in fields of general knowledge while he sat gazing smugly at his own reflection in a theological mirror.
He had quickened at sight of Tommy's familiar face, albeit that face was a trifle grosser, more smugly complacent than he had ever expected to behold it.
Gross criminals, naturally of the ground-hog type, and the nucleus of crime, practically left either to shift for themselves, or smugly passed up to others for solution of their pitiable problems!
May you cast the first stone with that smugly sanctimonious air of yours?
Mrs. Balfame of Brabant County Jail was surprised to discover that she looked back upon Mrs. Balfame of Elsinore as a person of small aims, and rather too smugly bourgeoise.
She is a very clever woman, not likely to linger on smugly in any fool's paradise.
All my life I've been an insurgent, scorning the caution of the provident, and paying a beastly stiff price for my mutiny against smugly accepted rules of the game.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "smugly" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
