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单词 smuggery
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smuggeryn.

/ˈsmʌɡəri/
Etymology: < smug adj. + -ery suffix.
The quality or condition of being smug, or an instance of this; smugness.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > affected behaviour or affectation > [noun] > conscious respectability
self-righteousness1574
smugness1883
respectability1907
smuggery1928
1928 A. Huxley Point Counter Point xi. 170 Enlargements,..by contrast with our bourgeois and Pecksniffian smuggeries.
1961 G. Frankau in P. Frankau Pen to Paper 221 I must pray to be redeemed from the sin of Smuggery.
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