smirk

IPA: smˈɝk

noun

  • An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.
  • A forced or affected smile.

verb

  • To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.

adjective

  • (obsolete) smart; spruce; affected; simpering
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Examples of "smirk" in Sentences

  • The gate keepers smirk at one another.
  • The man smirks when he leaves the house.
  • He faces the viewer with a smirk on his face.
  • Olivier Martinez wears a smirk on his face the day.
  • A smirk is really a terrible habit for any politician.
  • He passed Alan and a smirk appeared on the detective's face.
  • How he held back that tell of tells, the smirk, is beyond me.
  • A smirk is exactly what Bolloks has on his face during his heckle.
  • He only has one working eye and a smirk in the right side of his mouth.
  • He is very smart and when he is the winner, he smirks instead on smiling.
  • A smirk refers to a smile evoking insolence, scorn, or offensive smugness.
  • The wife gives the burglar a knowing smirk and the burglar smiles in return.
  • He recalled her smirk when she came back with some trousers and dropped them on the ground.
  • He had a mischievous smirk and the sound of muffled sniggers soon brought me back down to earth.
  • BTW Sam ... a 'smirk' is certainly in the eye of the beholder ... you obviously have a jaundiced eye!
  • I just can never, ever take this Dreamworks stuff seriously as long as that smirk is front and center, in my face.
  • His congenital smirk is best described as the sort of grin that, if named, would guarantee this comment a term in Moderator Purgatory.
  • Andrew was led to his place in front of Mr. Davies by Uncle Thomas (who was wearing what could only be described as a smirk) when suddenly, Marina lost her smile, and stared -
  • I believe what you are calling a smirk is where his teleprompter is telling him to "SMILE" -- that's so we, and he, know that he told us a joke, and also to dispel that nasty rumor going around about his bad temper.
  • In Art History, our teacher superimposed as self-portrait of DaVinci over an image of the Mona Lisa, saying that one theory claims that the mysterious Mona Lisa smirk is simply DaVinci’s secret that he painted himself as a woman.

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