smug

smug englannista suomeksi

1. omahyväinen, itseriittoinen

1. omahyväinen, itseriittoinen, itsetyytyväinen

1. Substantiivi

smug englanniksi

1. Irritatingly pleased with oneself; offensively self-complacent, self-satisfied.

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2. Showing smugness; showing self-complacency, self-satisfaction.

3. Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.

4. {{quote-text|en|year=1556|author=Raphe Robynson|title=More’s Utopia: The English Translation thereof

5. {{quote-journal|en|year=1828|author=Thomas De Quincey|title=Elements of Rhetoric|journal=Blackwood's Magazine

6. (RQ:Beaumont Fletcher Comedies and Tragedies)

7. To make smug, or spruce.

8. {{RQ:Drayton Poly-Olbion

9. to adopt an offensively self-complacent expression.

10. 1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables.

Hearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it."The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats," the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure."I did not know," remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, "that that would make so much noise.""The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too," added the Dragoman."It is astonishing," mused the Christian, "how violent and how general are religious animosities. Everywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain from murder only so long as they dare not commit it. And the strangest thing about it is that all religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign."So saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests.

11. To seize; to confiscate.

12. To up.

13. The smuggling trade.

14. 1830, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company, ''Report ... China Trade'' (page 397)

Have not they some term by which they distinguish the illicit trade? — They usually call it the ''Smug-pigeon''.

15. {{quote-book|en|year=1838|author=Charles Toogood Downing|title=The Stranger in China|page=66

16. in secret, hidden

17. (alt form)

18. an (l) or (l) (qualifier)

19. narrow strip of meadow or, less commonly, of a field or forest

20. any meadow, especially one that is marshy

21. (alt form)

22. (inflection of)