smarm

Oliver brings in Matthew Broderick, playing himself with exaggerated smarm, who effortlessly breezes through the patter song.

House Speaker Mike Johnson arrived at the White House full of smarm last Tuesday, as the nation tried to avert a partial government shutdown.

But it would need something more like a cordon sanitaire to protect the audience from the trickle of smarm that leaks from the play.

But now we are reduced to this kind of smarm from the Republican National Committee, recycling Hawley.

He needles Paul about religion and politics, and when the smarm he receives in return becomes too much to bear, he tells Maha he’s ready to throw him off the balcony.