Word: smugness
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...frenetic fervor that engulfed New Hampshire in February has dissipated. By all accounts, the state is solid Ronald Reagan country. His organizers walk around with smug smiles: "We've got this state easily," they say, invariably lowering their voices as if bellowing out the foregone conclusion would be in bad taste, or worse, bring bad luck. The Reagan people work from nine-to-five, the kind of hours their favorite kept up when he was governor of California. The Republican's campaign headquarters are spacious, and, for the most part, empty. No more envelopes left to stuff, no more door...
They were not welcomed. Bostonians--who enjoyed a high standard of living--were generally smug about living in the country's religious and cultural center. "The morality of Boston is more pure than that of any city in America," Bronson Alcott wrote in 1828, and the citizens of Cambridge extended his judgement to themselves...
...Every single analysis of which I am aware directly contradicts this Administration's smug assertion that the U.S. is and will remain militarily superior, or at least 'second to none.' We are already second...
...types, and the more self-effacing on the application the better. And, if you don't get into one, don't let it shatter your self-esteem; chances are the decisions were made in haste or randomly. If you do get in, of course, brag a lot and feel smug that you've beat out all those other people you thought were your superiors this week...
Peachum cannot flee this bunch fast enough; yet, pity the smug chuckler who patronizes this family: "You New York-Dutch-descended, probably wrong-Strauss-loving officer of some music society or civic uplift group," he snaps. "I'd like a peek at some of your Rorschachs, you old sofa-crack feeler, you. Slipping a palm furtively under cushions and into crevices as you fish for coins in other people's chairs in a fashion whose psychological symbolism is all too readily apparent, you cranny rummager, you wrong-Scarlatti admirer. You secretary-treasurer...