The character is self-centered, smarmy, quick-tempered, and overbearingly insincere. What it is an irritatingly smarmy, implausible mess. Mukesh is Anil, a smarmy stud with an exuberant lack of scruples. Her mother married a smarmy but rich man, who secretly lusts after his stepdaughter. Steven Rubin describes Whitaker as a "smarmy bad-guy arms trader". This segment features Smarmy Marmy as a fortune teller who tells monkeys their future. The Pirate - Smooth and smarmy, like any good pirate. S.P.A.M. Records ("Smarmy Post-Angst Musicians"). Blake, Jeff, and even Steven's wife Claudia warn her off the smarmy Peter.