Usually means: Insincerely flattering, obsequiously ingratiating behavior.
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  1. smarmy: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. smarmy: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smarmy: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. smarmy: Collins English Dictionary
  5. smarmy: Vocabulary.com
  6. Smarmy, smarmy: Wordnik
  7. smarmy: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. smarmy: Wiktionary
  9. smarmy: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. smarmy: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. smarmy: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. smarmy: Dictionary.com
  13. smarmy: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Smarmy: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. smarmy: Rhymezone
  16. smarmy: Free Dictionary
  17. smarmy: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. smarmy: Dictionary/thesaurus
  19. smarmy: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

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  1. smarmy: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smarmy: A Word A Day
  2. smarmy: Wordcraft Dictionary

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. smarmy: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. smarmy: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom

(Note: See smarmier as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious.
adjective:  (rare, dated) Unctuous, greasy, as hair from pomade.

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