Happy and Smug

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Happy adjective - Coming or happening by good luck especially unexpectedly.

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Smug and happy are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Smug" instead an adjective "Happy".

Nearby Words: happiness, happily

Smug adjective - Having too high an opinion of oneself.

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Happy and smug are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Happy" instead an adjective "Smug".

Nearby Words: smugness, smugly

The games also try to invoke this in the player, as the enemy gains a happy/smug look when the player's field is more than half-full and panic music starts playing when there are only a few free rows left.

Source: Video Game / Puyo Puyo
Hideyoshi starts out as a smug sleazeball NPC in the first game, but at the first expansion, he's given a more sympathetic personality where he really wants to make Japan a place for happy people.

Source: Useful Notes / Toyotomi Hideyoshi
Happy Gilmore Tin Cup 1996 comedies about a washed-up loser who takes up golfing, and ends up in a championship match against his smug rival.

Source: Dueling Works / Film Comedy

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