smirk
verb (used without object)
to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
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Anthony Howell's Trigorin, the destructive celebrity author, is unusually convincing: not a swaggerer or a smirker but a lethally hesitant presence.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 18, 2012