1. It was smarmy.

2. ‘No one likes a smarmy Adulator.’

3. She was trying to be friendly[Sentencedict.com], but she just seemed smarmy and insincere.

4. Pretty, sweet, charming and as far from the slick, Besuited, smarmy sort of double glazing type sales rep I …

5. ‘No one likes a smarmy Adulator.’ ‘That many in the eighteenth century actively resisted what seemed to them classical cultural imperialism, something supported by contemporaries they considered spineless Adulators and imitators, may be less widely understood.’

6. At the Blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future

7. At the Blatting of my morning alarm, the signal shifted again to bring me the smarmy voice of Rick Santorum, a menacing rumble from the streets of Greece, and a bitter harpy of a chant that said I now have more past than future.

8. ‘The code officer served as secretary and the Commissar as prosecutor.’ ‘We were led upstairs, extremely exhausted, to the smarmy Commissar's luxurious office with bedroom and en-suite bathroom.’ ‘The armies in which the left-wing Commissars remained influential had taken the old Taiping route to Changsha and Wuhan.’