smirk
verb (used without object)
to smile in an affected, smug, or offensively familiar way.
smirkingly
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a word derived from
smirk.
Example Sentences
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Adapted from Garth Ennis and Darick Robertson’s comic book, it’s a smirkingly gruesome genre series that’s equal parts mawkish melodrama and tar-black comedy.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 3, 2022
Outside the walls, there’s a little fakeout: Dany blasts the Night King with dragonfire, but he lives, and smirkingly.
From The New Yorker ● Apr. 29, 2019
What makes it gloriously watchable, now as then, is Olivier’s effortlessly virtuosic performance as Richard: imperious, ironic, brutish, sometimes hysterical and never less than smirkingly seductive.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 8, 2019
All eyes in the television world will be watching — whether eagerly, curiously, smirkingly or jealously — as the Oprah Winfrey Network rolls out its initial programming.
From New York Times ● Dec. 31, 2010
The hours of attendance being then settled, he looked smirkingly in her face, and added, 'Which of us two is to hold the stakes, you or I?' shaking the five guineas between his hands.
From The Wanderer (Volume 2 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny
