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Definition of smarm in English: smarmverb smɑːmsmɑrm informal 1British no object Behave in an ingratiating way in order to gain favour. she had smarmed up to him in order to entrap him Example sentencesExamples - ‘I'll leave you two for a few moments to decide what you want,’ the man smarmed and then left to go and throw out some poor looking people.
- Looking her over carefully, Joe smarmed: ‘Judging from your skin, twenty; your hair, eighteen; and your figure, twenty five.’
- Luke smarms around her in a glutinous way.
- But at least a large proportion of the crowd booed as he smarmed his way onto the rostrum, as was also the case at the Rugby League grand final.
- Daria asked as the four of them, seated at the back of the room, watched as Rosaline sketched with great flourishes on a large sketchpad, posing dramatically for the girls sitting around her, cooing and smarming.
- This Government smarms all over the place with its little rules and regulations, and the spin that it keeps putting on people.
- ‘Good afternoon, ladies’, he smarmed, cleansing his throat abruptly, cruising towards the startled snippets of feminine vagary with an outstretched, sinuous hand and an all too courtly demeanour.
- He plays smarm well, and his is the most interesting character in the film arguably.
- ‘I am glad to see you after your lamentable performance for the Spain v Ukraine game’ he smarms.
- Harry used to smarm round senior management, but he spoke abruptly to our long-in-the-tooth admin guy; directed him, and the trainees like me, to do his photocopying without a please or thank you.
- He smarmed and sneered his way through his much anticipated new comedy.
- ‘A… uh… word if I may,’ he smarms, sidling into Mission Control.
- Rob smarmed his way through a ghastly cover of my primary-school favourite song, 1927's ‘If I could.’
- He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat.
- ‘Wales must be delighted with the way they've hit back at England after the goal,’ he smarmed towards the end of the first half.
- All I saw and heard were politically loaded questions with no discernible purpose while the team >smarmed their way through a restricted news content.
- Primetime television is to be consolidated into one twenty-five-year-long compendium spreading across a hundred and eighteen channels in forty countries, a media type smarmed earlier.
Synonyms be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, be servile to, curry favour with, pay court to, play up to, crawl to, creep to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, fall over oneself for, kowtow to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape before, grovel before, cringe before, abase oneself before 2with object Smooth down (one's hair) with water, oil, or gel. he had smarmed his hair down Example sentencesExamples - By the end, he is smarming his hair down flat and wears a long leather coat.
noun smɑːmsmɑrm mass nouninformal Ingratiating behaviour. it takes a combination of smarm and confidence to persuade them Example sentencesExamples - Dang, and then I get back and they've got some pop smarm.
- Despite their rhetoric, their smarm, their thin veneer of respectability, they are racists by any intelligent definition.
- A poisson-out-of-water story that strings up Anglo-Franco Canadian tension without any social smarm.
- I daren't even speculate on their devilish purposes… begone with your blinding lights and televisual smarm!
- Laying the smarm on a bit thick, aren't we Howie?
- A student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike.
- Others will find the level of smarm suffocating, as every plot twist occasions a self-conscious musical outbreak, with the characters tunelessly expressing every little thought in their heads in song.
- I can certainly picture myself hitting him over the head; he defines smarm.
- I don't think he would've been very thrilled with life in the no-smoking smarm of the Tofu Era.
- In combination with the dark, bass-heavy production, the performance is a stark contrast from the bubblegum smarm of the original, instead focusing on the song's essence: suicide and its extremes.
- I say to Mr Tamihere that businesses can smell it, and they are smelling that sort of smarm a mile away.
- In lesser hands, this film could've been hackneyed smarm.
- But he did it with a trademark smarm and overpowering obnoxiousness that left Giblets coming back for more!
- Odd how it looks on a screen, free from all its euro-trash smarm slathered all over it.
- It may be conscious, but it beats the smarm deployed by so many of their colleagues.
- He lacks style, he lacks smarm, he lacks sureness in his step.
- Did, like, Leno set off the smarm alarm or something?!!!
- The smile in your face conceals a darkness in your heart, and there are still some in this green and pleasant land unwilling to let their knees buckle before your rapacious onslaught of smarm and spin.
- I think it's because he has a certain amount of smarm about him, perhaps it is just a reaction to that.
- And he's spraying smarm like the worst kind of cornered politician.
Synonyms blandishments, honeyed words, smooth talk, soft words, flattery, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, compliments
Origin Mid 19th century (originally dialect in the sense 'smear, bedaub'): of unknown origin. Rhymes alarm, arm, Bairam, balm, barm, becalm, calm, charm, embalm, farm, forearm, Guam, harm, imam, ma'am, malm, Montcalm, Notre-Dame, palm, psalm, qualm, salaam Definition of smarm in US English: smarmverbsmärmsmɑrm informal 1British no object Behave in an ingratiating way in order to gain favor. I smarmed my way into the air force Example sentencesExamples - ‘A… uh… word if I may,’ he smarms, sidling into Mission Control.
- Harry used to smarm round senior management, but he spoke abruptly to our long-in-the-tooth admin guy; directed him, and the trainees like me, to do his photocopying without a please or thank you.
- All I saw and heard were politically loaded questions with no discernible purpose while the team >smarmed their way through a restricted news content.
- ‘Good afternoon, ladies’, he smarmed, cleansing his throat abruptly, cruising towards the startled snippets of feminine vagary with an outstretched, sinuous hand and an all too courtly demeanour.
- ‘I am glad to see you after your lamentable performance for the Spain v Ukraine game’ he smarms.
- Luke smarms around her in a glutinous way.
- Primetime television is to be consolidated into one twenty-five-year-long compendium spreading across a hundred and eighteen channels in forty countries, a media type smarmed earlier.
- ‘Wales must be delighted with the way they've hit back at England after the goal,’ he smarmed towards the end of the first half.
- Daria asked as the four of them, seated at the back of the room, watched as Rosaline sketched with great flourishes on a large sketchpad, posing dramatically for the girls sitting around her, cooing and smarming.
- But at least a large proportion of the crowd booed as he smarmed his way onto the rostrum, as was also the case at the Rugby League grand final.
- ‘I'll leave you two for a few moments to decide what you want,’ the man smarmed and then left to go and throw out some poor looking people.
- This Government smarms all over the place with its little rules and regulations, and the spin that it keeps putting on people.
- Looking her over carefully, Joe smarmed: ‘Judging from your skin, twenty; your hair, eighteen; and your figure, twenty five.’
- Rob smarmed his way through a ghastly cover of my primary-school favourite song, 1927's ‘If I could.’
- He smarmed and sneered his way through his much anticipated new comedy.
- He could rail and cajole and smarm and pontificate to enthusiastic foreign audiences about the evils of Communism in Angola and then pass the hat.
- He plays smarm well, and his is the most interesting character in the film arguably.
Synonyms be obsequious to, be sycophantic to, be servile to, curry favour with, pay court to, play up to, crawl to, creep to, ingratiate oneself with, dance attendance on, fall over oneself for, kowtow to, toady to, truckle to, bow and scrape before, grovel before, cringe before, abase oneself before 2with object Smooth down (one's hair) with water, oil, or gel. he had smarmed his hair down Example sentencesExamples - By the end, he is smarming his hair down flat and wears a long leather coat.
nounsmärmsmɑrm informal Ingratiating behavior. it takes a combination of smarm and confidence to persuade them Example sentencesExamples - A student of smarm, he roamed the land dispensing jam tins of cash to people who at first glance appeared to be businesslike.
- The smile in your face conceals a darkness in your heart, and there are still some in this green and pleasant land unwilling to let their knees buckle before your rapacious onslaught of smarm and spin.
- Laying the smarm on a bit thick, aren't we Howie?
- In lesser hands, this film could've been hackneyed smarm.
- Odd how it looks on a screen, free from all its euro-trash smarm slathered all over it.
- But he did it with a trademark smarm and overpowering obnoxiousness that left Giblets coming back for more!
- It may be conscious, but it beats the smarm deployed by so many of their colleagues.
- I don't think he would've been very thrilled with life in the no-smoking smarm of the Tofu Era.
- Others will find the level of smarm suffocating, as every plot twist occasions a self-conscious musical outbreak, with the characters tunelessly expressing every little thought in their heads in song.
- Despite their rhetoric, their smarm, their thin veneer of respectability, they are racists by any intelligent definition.
- And he's spraying smarm like the worst kind of cornered politician.
- I can certainly picture myself hitting him over the head; he defines smarm.
- Did, like, Leno set off the smarm alarm or something?!!!
- I say to Mr Tamihere that businesses can smell it, and they are smelling that sort of smarm a mile away.
- I think it's because he has a certain amount of smarm about him, perhaps it is just a reaction to that.
- Dang, and then I get back and they've got some pop smarm.
- He lacks style, he lacks smarm, he lacks sureness in his step.
- I daren't even speculate on their devilish purposes… begone with your blinding lights and televisual smarm!
- In combination with the dark, bass-heavy production, the performance is a stark contrast from the bubblegum smarm of the original, instead focusing on the song's essence: suicide and its extremes.
- A poisson-out-of-water story that strings up Anglo-Franco Canadian tension without any social smarm.
Synonyms blandishments, honeyed words, smooth talk, soft words, flattery, cajolery, coaxing, wheedling, compliments
Origin Mid 19th century (originally dialect in the sense ‘smear, bedaub’): of unknown origin. |