“smugness”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

smugness

释义

smugness|ˈsmʌgnɪs|
[f. smug a.]
The condition or quality of being smug.
1632Sherwood, Smugnesse, netteté.1677Wycherley Pl. Dealer iii. i, She looks like an old Coach new painted; affecting an unseemly Smugness.1755H. Walpole Corr. (1903) III. 341, I like the smugness of the cathedral, and the profusion of the most beautiful Gothic tombs.1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France II. 78 No smugness..ever crossed the fancy of Schidone.1836Tait's Mag. III. 491 It has been..smoothened, and tamed down to smugness, by cultivation, enclosing, and planting.1883Contemp. Rev. Oct. 602 There is probably no smugness in the world comparable to the complacent smugness of our insular ignorance.

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