Usually means: Behaving in an ingratiating manner.
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  1. smarmily: Merriam-Webster
  2. smarmily: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. smarmily: Collins English Dictionary
  4. smarmily: Vocabulary.com
  5. smarmily: Wordnik
  6. smarmily: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. smarmily: Wiktionary
  8. smarmily: Dictionary.com
  9. smarmily: Rhymezone
  10. smarmily: FreeDictionary.org
  11. smarmily: Mnemonic Dictionary
  12. smarmily: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ adverb:  In a smarmy manner.

Similar:
unctuously, fulsomely, smirkily, schoolmarmishly, smirkingly, charmfully, schmaltzily, simperingly, sassily, charmingly, more...

Opposite:
gruffly, bluntly, brusquely, curtly

Types:
obsequiously, ingratiatingly, servilely, fawningly, slimily, unctuously, more...

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Similar:
unctuously, fulsomely, smirkily, schoolmarmishly, smirkingly, charmfully, schmaltzily, simperingly, sassily, charmingly, more...

Opposite:
gruffly, bluntly, brusquely, curtly

Types:
obsequiously, ingratiatingly, servilely, fawningly, slimily, unctuously, more...



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