smarmy
Adjective Satellite
- unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
- "smarmy self-importance"
Adj
- Falsely earnest, smug, ingratiating, or pious.
- Unctuous, greasy, as hair from pomade.
Adjective
- Behaving in an excessively flattering or ingratiating way.
Examples
- His smarmy attempts to praise his opponent’s ’brilliant’ plays were just a distraction.
Origin / Etymology
From smarm + -y. Apparently coined by "B.R.L., of Brighton" with sense "saying treacly things which do not sound genuine" in a competition for neologisms in The Academy (London) published on 14 January 1899.
Synonyms
buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, soapy, unctuous, flattering, gushing, ingratiating, smug
Scrabble Score: 13
smarmy: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsmarmy: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
smarmy: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary