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Quotes About Smarmy

The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and personal surrender that he remembered well from the Republic. He
~ Jonathan Franzen
The apparatchiks, too, were an eternal type. The tone of the new ones, in their TED Talks, in PowerPointed product launches, in testimony to parliaments and congresses, in utopianly titled books, was a smarmy syrup of convenient conviction and personal surrender that he remembered well from the Republic.
~ Jonathan Franzen
I've played a lot of really smarmy people in film, and it can be real fun, don't get me wrong. But it can be characters I'm not as excited to explore.
~ Ty Burrell
In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy
~ John Wyndham
Looking at my smarmy grin, my hooded eyes, I thought, I would hate this guy.
~ Gillian Flynn
I'm offended by the kind of smarmy religiosity that's all around us, perhaps more in America than in Europe, and not really that harmful because it's not really that intense or even that serious, but just... you know after a while you get tired of hearing clergymen giving the invocation at various public celebrations and you feel, haven't we outgrown all this? Do we have to listen to this?
~ Steven Weinberg
Sí?"she said shyly, and I marveled once again at the power of my totally smarmy synthetic charm. And in two languages, too.
~ Jeff Lindsay
Thwart, I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition. Sarissa said. It is today.
~ Jim Butcher
Thwart: to prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
~ Jim Butcher
I'm going to use them to track him down and thwart him. Thwart? Sarissa asked. Thwart. I said. To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person. I'm pretty sure that isn't the definition, Sarissa said. It is today.
~ Jim Butcher
Thwart," I said. "To prevent someone from accomplishing something by means of visiting gratuitous violence upon his smarmy person.
~ Jim Butcher
In a room full of journalists someone would already be doing an impersonation of the Robot Man. We'd also make fun of the smarmy host, who is a bit like Tom Bergeron, host of Hollywood Squares, America's Funniest Home Videos, and Dancing with the Stars, only cheesier, which is remarkable because Tom Bergeron is already the gold standard of cheesiness, and yet here is this total amateur, this complete unknown, blowing Bergeron away.
~ Unknown