Smug

a.	1.	Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. They be so smug and smooth. - Robynson (More's Utopia). The smug and scanty draperies of his style. - De Quincey. A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. - Beau. & Fl.
v. t.	1.	To make smug, or spruce. [imp. & p. p. Smugged ; p. pr. & vb. n. Smugging.] Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair. - Dryton.

Adj.

1.

smug - marked by excessive complacency or self-satisfaction; "a smug glow of self-congratulation" Synonyms: self-satisfied

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