Word: smug
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Hollywood, Artist Richard Decker unveiled, with flourishes, his latest portrait: a smug, somewhat sinister Queen Victoria, with white wig, ample bosom, the unmistakable face of Funnyman W. C. Fields...
...come to us that there is growing alarm among the people of this country and even our own graduates that the undergraduate body is taking part in organized un-American activities--such as picketing so-called "war-monger" lectures, distributing uncooperative propaganda, a general smug attitude toward the recent national defense legislation, and a lack of interest in the military, naval, and C.A.A. units here at Harvard...
...wonderful specimen of cartographic art which labels all land west of Boston as uninhabitable desert. Even within the sacred confines of the Yard, the unfortunate myth of Harvard indifference has gained appalling credence. But innocent Harvard has too long blushed under the oft repeated charges of intellectual isolation and smug localism. The University, long ready to absorb such blows flush on its scholarly chin, has at last reared up and made some vigorous attempts to fight back, to polish up the tarnished reputation of the new world Cantabrigians. In order to encourage students from the wild and woolly West...
...French think we are smug. We think the French are no better prepared than we are. The Americans think we are phony...
...another, politics in a third. Sir John Bowring, as a devout churchman, could write the familiar hymn, 'In the Cross of Christ I glory,' and, as the representative of empire, sign, perhaps with the same pen, the treaties forcing the nefarious opium trade upon China. . . . The old smug compartmentalism is gone, never to return...