1. Their chief weakness is a smarminess that should be erased by age. 2. Balaban captures the man's smarminess without mugging. 3. For whatever reason, and despite the smarminess , Neuheisel still enjoys college ball. 4. I knew he had the ability to ooze smarminess and the audience would laugh with him. 5. After all, Morris himself raised _ or lowered _ smarminess to a whole new level. 6. It's actually refreshing that the one thing he lacks is the glossy smarminess usually associated with top men. 7. It's all quite enjoyable despite the smarminess , and Hanks is quite good in his romantic hero role. 8. Willis uses smarminess to good effect, and Vince and Saks create two different but equally touching small-town failures. 9. Notre Dame football : An NCAA investigation that reveals the Irish wormy with more sordid smarminess than the British royal family. 10. Willis'smirking, comic smarminess is ineffective here, lacking the breeziness of his " Moonlighting " days on television.