smarm

The caterpillars could not stop spinning as they walked, and as they walked everywhere, they smarmed and garmed everything.

Alternatively, ignore their empty promises and press the 'Smarm button' and relax to music of your choice.

After that, one can address Her Majesty as "Ma'am" as in jam not "Mar'am" as in smarm

There was no indication, though, of what was to follow when Smarm, with trademark unctuousness, introduced "my illustrious guests" and made the obligatory remarks about "this traditional rite of spring" and "the love we all share for this great game we call racing".

Americans, who revel in smarm as much as anyone retain a grip on their sense of proportion.

Gingrich's genius has been to counter President Clinton's upbeat smarm by speaking straight to the patient's worst fears, acknowledging the terror of a nation that, despite the cosmetic surgery of the Reagan/Bush years, worries it has reached its time of decline.

Make-a-buck smarm, of course, has long threatened to engulf American culture.

LONG SMARM OF THE LAW: Barratt as TV cop Richard Thorncroft

Paul Ritter, especially, oozes RP smarm as MI5's head of counter-espionage with a mother who viciously twists his ear.

Tony Blair, that most savvy-ofthem-all operator, was occasionally photographed at his local in his north east constituency to show he was really a 'man of the people' beneath all the smarm, but few were taken in.

Porcelain, moon-faced dandy channelling the smarm, yet none of the likeability of the late Bob Monkhouse, some say.

His smarm is an acquired taste, but, give him his due, he can at least interview people properly.