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English
The character is self-centered, smarmy, quick tempered, and overbearingly insincere.
en.wikipedia.org
Some of us have smarmy tweens and teens to deal with.
www.dnaindia.com
He is the perfect mix of smarmy and respectable.
mashable.com
Or, after you've seen too many of their billboards and leaflets, is that smile starting to look smarmy?
www.scoop.co.nz
And he did it with facts, not with smarmy "data" and soapbox rhetoric.
www.independent.co.uk
He's not smarmy like in a lot of his earlier stuff.
www.redeyechicago.com
It's an instance of smarmy politicians lying to their constituents.
www.gizmodo.com.au
This website will not offend visitors with smarmy overstatements of what's on offer.
www.dailymail.co.uk
And he's not an everyman; he's a smarmy, arrogant billionaire!
www.valuewalk.com
I think his tirade amounts to little more than a smarmy swipe at the least privileged in our community.
www.echo.net.au

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