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"word": "זחוח"
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"word": "önelégült"
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"word": "調子に乗る"
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"word": "whakaī"
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"word": "whakakake"
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"word": "próżny"
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"word": "irytująco zadowolony z siebie"
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"word": "ਮਨਮੌਜੀ"
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"ref": "1556, Raphe Robynson, More’s Utopia: The English Translation thereof:",
"text": "They be so smug and smooth.",
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"ref": "1828, Thomas De Quincey, “Elements of Rhetoric”, in Blackwood's Magazine:",
"text": "the smug and scanty draperies of his style",
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"ref": "c. 1621, John Fletcher, Philip Massinger, “The Pilgrim”, in Comedies and Tragedies […], London: […] Humphrey Robinson, […], and for Humphrey Moseley […], published 1647, →OCLC, Act I, scene ii:",
"text": "A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow.",
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "irytująco zadowolony z siebie"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "presunçoso"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "convencido"
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"roman": "manmaujī",
"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "ਮਨਮੌਜੀ"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "самодово́льный"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "samoľúby"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "ufano"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "engreído"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "petulante"
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"code": "es",
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "creído"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "självgod"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "självbelåten"
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"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "mallig"
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"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "samovdovólenyj",
"sense": "irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied",
"word": "самовдово́лений"
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"ref": "1612, Michael Drayton, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [John Selden], editor, Poly-Olbion. Or A Chorographicall Description of Tracts, Riuers, Mountaines, Forests, and Other Parts of this Renowned Isle of Great Britaine, […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes] for M[athew] Lownes; I[ohn] Browne; I[ohn] Helme; I[ohn] Busbie, →OCLC:",
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"text": "1899 Ambrose Bierce: Fantastic Fables.\nHearing a sound of strife, a Christian in the Orient asked his Dragoman the cause of it.\n\"The Buddhists are cutting Mohammedan throats,\" the Dragoman replied, with oriental composure.\n\"I did not know,\" remarked the Christian, with scientific interest, \"that that would make so much noise.\"\n\"The Mohammedans are cutting Buddhist throats, too,\" added the Dragoman.\n\"It is astonishing,\" mused the Christian, \"how violent and how general are religious animosities.\nEverywhere in the world the devotees of each local faith abhor the devotees of every other, and abstain\nfrom murder only so long as they dare not commit it. And the strangest thing about it is that\nall religions are erroneous and mischievous excepting mine. Mine, thank God, is true and benign.\"\nSo saying he visibly smugged and went off to telegraph for a brigade of cutthroats to protect Christian interests."
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"ref": "1830, Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the East India Company, Report ... China Trade (page 397)",
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