smirk

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1. smirk - Noun

2. smirk - Adjective

3. smirk - Verb

Meaning

To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

A forced or affected smile; a simper.

Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.

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Examples

There are only two styles of portrait painting; the serious and the smirk. Charles Dickens

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again. Jane Austen

Poets speak of hope in ladies smiles, but give me a smirk any day, I say. Lois McMaster Bujold

Oh, Wax has always been solemn, but when he's at his best, there's a smirk underneath. Brandon Sanderson

These women whose antics we smirk at good-naturedly in the pap-traps put themselves out there at least partly on their beauty; they are in showbiz, and showing what they've got is part of their business as much as it is for male show-ponies from the Chippendales to George Clooney. Julie Burchill

It is horrid to smirk. Helen Fielding

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