How to Use smarm in a Sentence

smarm

noun

• But if Scalia’s defining trait was snark, Gorsuch’s might be smarm.
  — Simon Van Zuylen-Wood, Daily Intelligencer, 28 May 2018
• What a great example of why college hoops has withstood all the smarm that surrounds it.
  — Paul Daugherty, Cincinnati.com, 10 Jan. 2018
• When the high-kicking, always-leering Roth left, the band’s smarm factor decreased 10-fold.
  — The Enquirer, 7 Oct. 2020
• It’s that rare yacht-rock album that’s graceful, earnest, and utterly lacking in smarm.
  — David Browne, Rolling Stone, 22 June 2021
• But this week, the theater will offer a fuller sampling of Mr. Bates’s charm and smarm with a career-spanning retrospective.
  — Ben Kenigsberg, New York Times, 15 Feb. 2018
• Played with all the smarm of a used car salesman by Murray Hamilton, Vaughn is among the first creatures to emerge out of the cynicism engendered by Watergate.
  — Alex Shephard, The New Republic, 20 Mar. 2020
• But Steve Bannon, in his 60 Minutes interview, has outdone them all for sheer outlandish smarm.
  — Jonathan Chait, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Sep. 2017
• The building's smarm factor was reduced by a substantial degree.
  — Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 19 Apr. 2017
• Maybe it’s the exhausting smarm, the squirrelly ambition, the hollow theatrics.
  — Washington Post, 18 Feb. 2021
• And if Black isn’t available for this brief, dismissive cameo, call up Brett Gelman, whose facial hair and smarm are practically unparalleled.
  — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Sep. 2022
• Ian is eventually released from jail and Corporal MacGregor smarms and makes threats while eyeballing young Fergus.
  — Roxane Gay, Glamour, 17 Sep. 2017
• While Peter appeared the perfect specimen, both fans and Rachel’s family questioned whether Bryan’s abundance of charm was actually smarm.
  — Michelle Ruiz, Vogue, 8 Aug. 2017

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024