smirk
to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
the facial expression of a person who smirks.
Origin of smirk
1Other words from smirk
- smirker, noun
- smirk·ing·ly, adverb
- un·smirk·ing, adjective
- un·smirk·ing·ly, adverb
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How to use smirk in a sentence
A smirking Ramone is shown wearing both a CBGB shirt and heavy gold chains, posing next to an enormous boombox.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk Paintings | Melissa Leon | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTYet, after months of backdoor negotiations there was Xi, stone-facedly shaking hands with a smirking Abe.
He told me to enter while smirking, knowing full well my intentions.
Cocaine, Politicians and Wives: Inside the World’s Most Bizarre Prison | Jason Batansky | October 12, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTNo character this year is more volatile and unpredictable; you never know what the hunched-over, smirking Quell will do next.
The Daily Beast’s Oscar Nominees: Leonardo DiCaprio, Anne Hathaway & More | Marlow Stern | January 4, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTMaria is the first “political criminal” in the family, she says, smirking between puffs of her cigarette.
I soon find out when they are trying to cheat me; then they come smirking and smiling with 'Guten Abis.'
Skipper Worse | Alexander Lange KiellandThe organ gallery appears to be a pleasant resort for a few hours' gossip and smirking.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusTarling put the girl from him and looked at the smirking manager.
The Daffodil Mystery | Edgar WallaceAll the evening we sat, almost in silence, inanely smirking at each other and listening to the rain.
Thirty Years in Australia | Ada CambridgeNodding and smirking at Morsfield's approach, she entreated Aminta to step up and in, for the horses were coming out of the yard.
Lord Ormont and his Aminta, Complete | George Meredith
British Dictionary definitions for smirk
/ (smɜːk) /
a smile expressing scorn, smugness, etc, rather than pleasure
(intr) to give such a smile
(tr) to express with such a smile
Origin of smirk
1Derived forms of smirk
- smirker, noun
- smirking, adjective
- smirkingly, adverb
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