tS=Alan Cumming plays the Emcee as a leering kewpie doll, and without Joel Grey's charm, his role would have just been <b>smarmy</b>.<br><br>The Democratic male candidate lacked snap, crackle, pop, and the Republican male candidate seemed <b>smarmy</b>.&tQ=<b>Smarmy</b> means:&tC=Silly|Overblown|Sentimental|Ordinary|Offensively flattering&cC=5&fB=<b>Smarmy</b> means offensively flattering, hypocritically earnest, ingratiating. <b>Smarmy</b> is pronounced SMAHR-mee.
