smarmily
In unctuous fashion
In a smarmy manner—with excessive, insincere flattery or unctuous charm: He smiled smarmily at the boss while taking credit for someone else's work.
The word suggests behavior that's slick and self-serving, making the speaker seem oily or obsequious.
With pretended ignorance
- falselyContrary to fact
- hollowlyIn an empty manner
- affectedlyWith artificial manner
- hypocriticallyFeigning virtues one lacks
phonily · insincerely · pretentiously · calculatingly · manipulatively · deceitfully · sanctimoniously · smugly
With servile flattery
- obsequiouslyWith servile flattery
- sycophanticallyWith servile flattery
- servilelyIn subservient manner
- grovelinglyIn abject submission
flatteringly · deferentially · subserviently · unctuously · effusively · cloyingly · gushingly · complacently
Fluently but insincerely
- smoothlyWithout friction or difficulty
- suavelyWith smooth sophistication
- sleeklyIn smooth manner
- slicklyIn smooth, practiced manner
urbanely · charmingly · facilely · slipperily · silkily · debonairly · smugly · meltingly
disingenuously
With pretended ignorance
- falselyContrary to fact
- hollowlyIn an empty manner
- affectedlyWith artificial manner
hypocritically · phonily · insincerely · pretentiously · calculatingly · manipulatively · deceitfully · sanctimoniously · smugly
fawningly
With servile flattery
- obsequiouslyWith servile flattery
- sycophanticallyWith servile flattery
- servilelyIn subservient manner
grovelingly · flatteringly · deferentially · subserviently · unctuously · effusively · cloyingly · gushingly · complacently · slavishly
glibly
Fluently but insincerely
slickly · urbanely · charmingly · facilely · slipperily · silkily · debonairly · smugly · meltingly · unctuously