Unscramble

s 1 m 3 a 1 r 1 m 3 y 4

6 letters · 13 points in Scrabble

Meaning

adjective unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech

originFrom smarm + -y. Apparently coined by "B.R.L., of Brighton" with sense "saying treacly things which do not sound genuine" in a competition for neologisms in The Academy (London) published on 14 January 1899.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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