swarmy
1
9.5
Too polite or friendly in a way that does not seem sincere
- adjective
- /ˈswɔrmi/
:
lisonjero
- The politician's swarmy rhetoric failed to convince the skeptical audience.
Examples
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Nelson gets the dig and looks over at him with his dark swarmy eyes, a little flat across the top, like a cross cat's.
Fiction book (1990) -
Oh, you're so swarmy, you're so smarmy, you're so stinky, you're so sexy.
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His swarmy compliments made everyone uncomfortable at the party.
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She gave a swarmy smile that seemed insincere during the presentation.
Synonyms
ingratiating
vsswarmy
2
7.3
Pretending to be friendly to make someone like you
emphasizes an overly smooth flattering style instead of focused favor seeking
toadyish
vsswarmy
1
9.9
Being too friendly and praising someone important to get favor
is a general smooth flattering manner not limited to authority figures
Antonyms
How Insincere
Surface Forms
swarmy positive
Etymology
Swarmy comes from the common word swarm ('a large moving group') plus the ending -y ('full of'), so it suggested being like a 'swarm' of attention. A helpful image is a person surrounded by a 'swarm of compliments'—too many and often not sincere—which is why swarmy means overly flattering or insincere.