smugness

noun

Definition of smugnessnext
as in vanity
an often unjustified feeling of being pleased with oneself or with one's situation or achievements the sense of smugness that can come with too many easy victories

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for smugness
  1. vanity
  2. ego
  3. pride
  4. arrogance
  5. complacency
  6. self-satisfaction
Noun
  • Here, garland drapes over each medicine cabinet and fills a small bowl on the vanity top, adding punches of color and festivity without being too literal.
    Abby Wolner, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Dec. 2024
  • The bathroom itself looks a lot like its counterpart and has a shower, a small vanity sink, and a flushing toilet, as well as some more storage.
    Adam Williams, New Atlas, 14 Dec. 2024
Definition of vanity
Noun
  • Good athletes are typically highly coachable, leaving their ego at the door, being adaptable and open to feedback and viewing constructive feedback as a gift toward improvement.
    Jennifer Shewan, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
  • But fortunately for my oral health and fragile ego, my people-pleasing tendencies won out — and the product changed my life.
    Mike Winters, CNBC, 29 Nov. 2024
Definition of ego
Noun
  • Remind your child that your pride and acceptance are unconditional and that the team is behind them no matter what.
    Brennan Barnard, Forbes, 12 Dec. 2024
  • But most of his guests were his adult children, beaming with pride as their father readied himself to rock the stage.
    Touré, Rolling Stone, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of pride
Noun
  • Kudos are also due Christian Probst as a prince without a drop of royal arrogance.
    Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 12 Dec. 2024
  • Barack Obama came across to his foes as the principle of arrogance.
    Philip Elliott, TIME, 11 Dec. 2024
Definition of arrogance
Noun
  • And yet, eight years after the idea popped into his head, at last his bold opus has come to the big screen, ready to jolt audiences out of their complacency.
    Tim Grierson, Rolling Stone, 7 Dec. 2024
  • Chronic complacency has long been a challenge for South Korea.
    William Pesek, Forbes, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of complacency
Noun
  • Megalopolis posits a world of clueless liberal self-satisfaction, missing every point of contemporary alertness to ongoing lawfare and sedition.
    Armond White, National Review, 4 Oct. 2024
  • Nothing was off-limits in Mad, a newsstand stalwart that would reach peak annual sales in the 1970s of 2.5 million issues by delivering belly laughs and self-satisfaction to America’s class clowns through cartoons, parodies, sarcastic characters and an unending stream of gross-out gags.
    Patrick Sauer, Smithsonian Magazine, 17 Sep. 2024
Definition of self-satisfaction
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