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Contented vs Smug - What's the difference?

contented | smug |

As verbs the difference between contented and smug

is that contented is past tense of content while smug is to make smug, or spruce.

As adjectives the difference between contented and smug

is that contented is satisfied while smug is irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.

contented

English

Verb

(head)
  • (content)
  • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • satisfied
  • * 1795 , ISSN 0037-7333, volume 4, number 3, June 2010, page 72:
  • "I shall now die contented ," [Boswell] breathed, "since I have lived to see the present day."

    smug

    English

    Adjective

    (smugger)
  • Irritatingly pleased with oneself; self-satisfied.
  • Kate looked extremely smug this morning.
  • (obsolete) Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim.
  • * Robynson (More's Utopia)
  • They be so smug and smooth.
  • * De Quincey
  • the smug and scanty draperies of his style
  • * Beaumont and Fletcher
  • A young, smug , handsome holiness has no fellow.

    Synonyms

    * self-satisfied * complacent

    Derived terms

    * smugly * smugness

    Verb

    (smugg)
  • (obsolete) To make smug, or spruce.
  • * Dryton
  • Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair.
    (Webster 1913)

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