I knew by his smugness that he had been found not guilty.
The noun form for the adjective smug is smugness.
The noun form of the adjective 'smug' is smugness.
an inflated ego, sense of elf worth and smugness
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smugness, satisfaction, contentment, self-congratulation, self-satisfaction
UwU is a way to type the emoticon :3. It can denote happiness or smugness. It is likened to an overjoyed anime face.
Conceit, vanity, arrogance, egotism, smugness, superiority, dignity, honour, self-respect, self-esteem
No, not really. Smugness is being pleased with oneself for doing something which has harmful implications for someone else, but not at all for you. You know, like when the teacher's pet gets you into trouble for something she suggested, and knows that you will never be believed if you tell the teacher that she suggested it. That look on her face is smug. I don't know if there is an opposite to smugness. Maybe the feeling you have when you do something good, and yet you know that nobody will believe that it was you that did it. In any case, it isn't modesty.
First lets establish some foundation: Genuine confidence is a sense of self that radiates a factual state of admirable achievement. Conversely, arrogant conceit is the hideous condition of radical distortion of sense-of-self that is detached and likely counter to the individual's factual state of identity. In my opinion, Smugness is not a condition of the 'observed', but rather an unfortunate intermix of the observer's own low self-esteem in the presence of geniune confidence. Most humans are actually incapable of discerning between 'smugness' and geniune 'radiating confidence' - unless that observer has contextual knowledge of the particular factual achievement that underlies the confidence of the observed. In my case, strangers typically despise me on contact - unless there is an 'intermediary' who can explain to them who I actually am.. at which point the odiousness of my prior 'smugness' instantantly evaporates in the mind of the previously irrated observer. Once they know, then we can get onto more 'normal social interactions'. However, without context - again... humans typically have no way of differentiating 'putting on aires' and actually, truly, factually-with-bonafides... Being All That.
(meaning complacency, smugness, stupidity) In consolidating his power, the baron counted on the fatuity and laziness of his rivals. The fatuity of the managers would become obvious only when most of them were fired.
Smugness is something which every thinking person, and especially religious persons, have to exert themselves to try to overcome. May God please help us.