4 Sentences With "smiling smugly"

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Later, Paul is about to lie down for a nap when he sees his double, dashing out of the depot into the dark of night, smiling smugly. from The Verge
But the suggestion had the intended effect of putting Trump on defense, forcing the frontrunner to rattle off legal arguments over boos from the crowd, while Cruz watched, smiling smugly, from the next podium. from Vice
A picture of Smug George is passed around, smiling smugly and chubbily.
At times when Sir Humphrey fails to get his way, Woolley can be seen smiling smugly at him over his defeat. In a 2004 retrospective, Armando Iannucci commented that Fowlds had a difficult task because he had to "spend most of his time saying nothing but looking interested in everyone else's total and utter guff" but "his one line frequently had to be the funniest of the lot." Iannucci suggests that Woolley is essential to the structure of the show because both Hacker and Appleby confide in him, "which means we get to find out what they're plotting next." The editor's note to The Complete Yes Prime Minister (supposedly published in 2024 after Hacker's death but actually published by the BBC in 1989), thanks "Sir Bernard Woolley GCB" for his help and confirms that he did indeed make it to the position of Head of the Civil Service.