Usually means: Excessive flattery, often insincerely ingratiating.
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  1. smarm: Merriam-Webster
  2. smarm: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smarm: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smarm: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smarm: Vocabulary.com
  6. smarm: Wordnik
  7. smarm: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. smarm: Wiktionary
  9. smarm: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. smarm: Dictionary.com
  11. smarm: Rhymezone
  12. smarm: FreeDictionary.org
  13. smarm: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. smarm: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. smarm: Encyclopedia

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  1. SMARM: Acronym Finder

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smarm, smarm: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. smarm: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (smarm)

noun:  Smarmy language or behavior.
noun:  (fandom slang) A style of fan fiction in which characters are warm and caring toward each other but without sexual overtones.
verb:  (intransitive) To fawn, to be unctuous.
verb:  (transitive) To address in a fawning and unctuous manner.

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