smugly
With irritating pride
Smugly describes doing something with excessive self-satisfaction or complacency.
It suggests an irritating awareness of one's own superiority or correctness: He smugly announced he'd predicted the outcome, She smiled smugly as her rival stumbled.
The word carries a negative judgment—no one uses smugly to describe themselves approvingly.
Treating someone as inferior
- superciliousArrogantly contemptuous of others
- disdainfulShowing open contempt
- contemptuousShowing open disrespect
- holier-than-thouSmugly moralistic toward others
self-righteous · priggish · snobbish · imperious · dismissively · scornfully · sneeringly · loftily
Smugly pleased with oneself
- conceitedExcessively proud of oneself
- haughtyDisdainfully proud
- pompousAffectedly grand in manner
- egotisticalExcessively self-centered
vainglorious · self-important · overbearing · boastful · overconfident · narcissistic · puffed-up · swaggering
Feeling no worry
- nonchalantCalmly unconcerned
- blaséUnimpressed through overexposure
- unruffledEmotionally undisturbed, placid
- unperturbedNot bothered or worried
secure · assured · unworried · contentedly · cozily · snugly · knowingly · serenely
patronizing
Treating someone as inferior
- superciliousArrogantly contemptuous of others
- disdainfulShowing open contempt
- contemptuousShowing open disrespect
holier-than-thou · self-righteous · priggish · snobbish · imperious · dismissively · scornfully · sneeringly · loftily · haughtily
self-satisfied
Smugly pleased with oneself
egotistical · vainglorious · self-important · overbearing · boastful · overconfident · narcissistic · puffed-up · swaggering · preening
unconcerned
Feeling no worry
- nonchalantCalmly unconcerned
- blaséUnimpressed through overexposure
- unruffledEmotionally undisturbed, placid
unperturbed · secure · assured · unworried · contentedly · cozily · snugly · knowingly · serenely · placidly
- arrogant adverbshaughtily, pompously, condescendingly, disdainfully, superciliously
- harshlyharshly, sharply, curtly, bluntly, rudely
smuglyhumbly
Without pride or arrogance
modestly · meekly · self-deprecatingly · unassumingly · diffidently
smuglyuncertainly
In a doubtful way
insecurely · hesitantly · tentatively · doubtfully · anxiously
- smug faceSelf-congratulatory expression