Word: smugness
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...under FBI suspicion. The test was administered by Dick Rackleff, a former FBI agent now in private practice, who said in a press conference Tuesday that there was no doubt in his mind that Jewell had no knowledge about the bomb. "Jewell's attorneys are growing more and more smug and their rhetoric is getting stronger," says TIME's Greg Fulton. "The FBI continues to say that they are waiting for additional forensic results. But they have been saying that for the past week." Meanwhile, Jewell continues to be the object of media scrutiny and finds himself a virtual prisoner...
...lilting, Lolita-esque lyric loops mischievously out of the radio, wreathed snugly in girlish laugher that smacks of smug assurance...
...people's democratically elected officials. Last week, for example, he refused to join the rest of the court in holding that the tax-supported, men-only Virginia Military Institute violated women's right to equal protection of the laws. A democratic system, Scalia wrote, "is destroyed if the smug assurances of each age are removed from the democratic process and written into the Constitution...
...tape their only debate. The two men shook hands, and then Peres, 72, leaned forward and said to his young opponent, "You have a stain on your jacket." For a moment, Netanyahu turned red with panic. Then Peres burst out laughing. It was a good joke but a smug one, reflecting the Prime Minister's supreme confidence as it played on his challenger's reputation as a handsome but empty suit. In the end, though, the humiliation belonged to Peres, the last laugh to the glib former diplomat with only eight years' experience in the take-no-prisoners world...
...anti-Kremlin diatribes printed by tabloids that leave an unpleasant ink smudge on the fingers. There are less appetizing signs as well in the thuggish youths wearing gym suits who hawk alcohol and cigarettes in sheet-metal kiosks, keeping one step ahead of the law, and in the smug young bankers who make million-dollar deals in currency exchange...