by Emrys Westacott Elaine: “I hate smugness. Don’t you hate smugness? Cabdriver, “Smugness is not a good quality.” So goes a popular snippet from Seinfeld. In a 2014 article in The Guardian titled “Smug: The most toxic insult of them all?” Mark Hooper opined that “there can be few more damning labels in modern Britain than … Continue reading What’s so bad about smugness?