1. In a smug manner
   "the bureaucrats explained smugly that the facts provided by their own experts show no cause for concern"

See also: smug

• determination
• determinative
• determinator
• determine
• determined
• determinedly
• determiner
• determining
• determining factor
• determinism
• determinist
• deterministic
• deterrence
• deterrent
• deterrent example
• detersive
• detest
• detestable
• detestably
• detestation
• detested
• dethaw
• dethrone
• virtuousness
• virucidal