Usually means: Self-satisfied, superior attitude displayed openly.
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We found 20 dictionaries that define the word smugness:

General (18 matching dictionaries)
  1. smugness: Merriam-Webster
  2. smugness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smugness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. smugness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Smugness, smugness: Wordnik
  6. smugness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. smugness: Wiktionary
  8. smugness: Dictionary.com
  9. Smugness: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. smugness: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  11. smugness: Rhymezone
  12. Smugness: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. smugness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  14. smugness: FreeDictionary.org
  15. smugness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. smugness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. smugness: Legal dictionary

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Smugness: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (smugness)

▸ noun:  (uncountable) The state or quality of being smug.
▸ noun:  (countable) The result or product of being smug.

Similar:
smirkiness, smuggishness, smogginess, snobbishness, smilingness, slyness, smuttiness, gloatiness, sulkiness, smarminess, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Adjectives:
certain, such, moral, little, bourgeois, own, victorian, intellectual, satisfied, class, american

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Similar:
smirkiness, smuggishness, smogginess, snobbishness, smilingness, slyness, smuttiness, gloatiness, sulkiness, smarminess, more...

Opposite:
humility, modesty, unpretentiousness

Adjectives:
certain, such, moral, little, bourgeois, own, victorian, intellectual, satisfied, class, american



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