(1) I didn’t go to Eton and get all that smarmy, charming education, I’m afraid.
(2) From someone junior at work, “nice dress” can be smarmy; from someone senior, it can be faintly pervy.
(3) Pardew has been sent from the touchline and will be in huge trouble for this - a manager with a history of touchline bust-ups against assorted opposite numbers and officials, his usual smarmy post-match apology is highly unlikely to save his bacon this time.
(4) After the United Nations reports on war crimes , the supply of Australian vessels to the Sri Lankan Navy to prevent the departure of people who want to escape, and the revelation that a former Sri Lankan military officer was overseeing the interment of Tamil asylum seekers on Manus Island, there was something about the smarminess of the exchange in that picture that caused me additional disgust and embarrassment.
(5) Or smarmy seducers wanting the fancy food as close to the bedroom as possible without the expense of a hotel.
(6) So the radio spot takes the form of a mock game show, voiced by a smarmy-sounding host who goes under the moniker of Wink Taxandspend (hilarious!).
(7) She's very warm but not smarmy, she's never impolite, she has the openness of someone who is never expecting high office – which she isn't, apparently, due to those pesky grammar schools.
(8) The Welsh secretary, Peter Hain, said: "We must not behave as if a Tory win is inevitable," and argued that unless the party picked itself up "we might as well wrap conference up now, go home and wait for David Cameron to give that smarmy smile of his from the steps of No 10".
Smarty
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) I really want to say thank you for the kind way my decrepit body was washed; how, in the middle of the night when I felt overwhelmed, a nurse stopped what she was doing and held my hand; the cake covered in Smarties the catering staff brought me for my birthday; the smiles and jokes with the staff to pass the long days; and Mr Burbos (one of the handsome consultant surgeons) who has been so generous with his time and care.
(2) When we were little, she was always tempting us with sugary treats: a bottomless Smarties bin and her legendary coke floats – a lump of vanilla ice-cream fizzing in a glass of cold cola.
(3) And keeping the law's Whiplash Willies away from "light-touch" arbitration is like handing Lance Armstrong a tube of Smarties.
(4) After all that talk of chocolate we couldn’t resist the Bogtrotter cake loaded with smarties, marshmallows and maltesers (£2.50).
(5) Additionally, children nearly always stated that the posted card displayed a picture of Smarties, and that the tube really contained pencils.
(6) The Bookseller pointed out that it is not the first time Booktrust has come under fire for its choice of sponsor – it worked with Nestle between 1985 and 2007 on the Nestle Smarties book prize – but authors including Melvin Burgess and Gillian Cross signed a letter in 2003 announcing they did "not wish to be associated" with the award, in protest at Nestle's promotion of powdered baby milk in developing countries.
(7) You can see a PowerPoint I made for a lesson on this along with some sheets we use for pupils to write their manifestos for the nation's sweet - here is a blank one so pupils can choose their own sweets or there are some with the sweets already on: after eights , or smarties or jelly babies .
(8) As in previous studies, children very often judged that they had believed a Smarties tube contained pencils when these were revealed as the true content, even though they had stated "Smarties" before the tube had been opened.
(9) In Tower Block of Commons , another "reality" show, she was alleged to have hidden £50 down her bra and to be handing out Temazepam like Smarties.
(10) Under another condition, when the tube was first presented, children mailed a picture into a postbox of what they thought was inside (Smarties).
(11) the great majority of children answered correctly with "Smarties".