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SMARMINESS

Dictionary entry overview: What does smarminess mean?

• SMARMINESS (noun)
The noun SMARMINESS has 1 sense:

1. smug self-serving earnestness

Familiarity information: SMARMINESS used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• SMARMINESS (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Smug self-serving earnestness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

smarminess; unctuousness; fulsomeness; oiliness; oleaginousness; unction

Hypernyms ("smarminess" is a kind of...):

hypocrisy (insincerity by virtue of pretending to have qualities or beliefs that you do not really have)

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