He just smiles and goes on with the smug assumption that there's no need to share with you the details of what he wants to do.

Maia still missed her twin, but also felt resentment toward her harsh behavior and smug assumption of superiority, when they had last, briefly, met.

What I cannot stand from Westerners is the smug assumption that they are superior in all respects to the Chinese.

He might be a genetic throwback, an untimely Neanderthal, even nature's violent reaction to his family members' smug assumption that they can control their lives.

He hastened after her, abruptly realizing that all of his smug assumptions about the squid people, the sea swifts, had been entirely mistaken.

But isn't that an awfully smug assumption?

Your pitiful little conventions and smug assumptions of decency would prevent.

A smug assumption you often extend to include your friends, the Jews.

"There you go, with your smug masculine assumption of the unreliability of the female of the species!"

These smug assumptions ignore the terrorist state's most likely method of obtaining nuclear weapons: theft or secret purchase.