smarmy

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Falsely earnest, smug, or ingratiating

a smarmy salesman with a big smile.

disapproval If you describe someone as smarmy, you dislike them because they are unpleasantly polite and flattering, usually because they want you to like them or to do something for them. Rick is slightly smarmy and eager to impress. polite in an insincere way - used to show disapproval (smarm (19-21 centuries), of unknown origin)
{s} excessively ingratiating, unctuous; sleek and smooth
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech; "buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"
smarminess
The property of being smarmy
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