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How to pronounce “smug”
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Pronunciation guide for smug
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of smug with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Trying to be Special
as aggressive to people, "Pregnant Women Are Smug."
- Definition summary
- irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce smug
Trying to be Special
as aggressive to people, "Pregnant Women Are Smug."
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “smug”
Meaning
- [Adjective]
- irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.
- Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.
- (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
- [Verb]
- (obsolete, transitive) To make smug, or spruce.
- (intransitive) to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.
- (obsolete, transitive, slang) To seize; to confiscate.
- (obsolete, transitive, slang) To hush up.
- [Noun]
- (obsolete, Anglo-Chinese) The smuggling trade.
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