adv. [f. SMUG a.] In a smug, complacent († smart or trim) manner.

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1575.  Laneham, Lett. (1871), 30. Hiz beard smugly shauen.

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1598.  Florio, Nettamente, neatly,… handsomely, smugly.

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1656.  S. Holland, Zara (1719), 146. Dragons may now securely sleep, and ugly Deformed Orks seem to look smooth and smugly.

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1727.  Gay, Begg. Op., I. iv. Though she be never so ugly, Lillies and roses will quickly appear And her face look wondrous smuggly.

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1840.  Hood, Up the Rhine, 207. Instead of looking smugly … The votaries are all so old and ugly.

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1892.  Spectator, 16 Jan., 84/1. Just consider what the smugly respectable man has done for himself.

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