Definitions
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- adverb With smirking; with a smirk.
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- adverb In a
smirking manner.
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Examples
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The targets in his smirkingly off-color but ineffectual monologue couldn't have been more obvious and tired: Kim Kardashian, Eddie Murphy, Jodie Foster's Beaver (a roundabout way to insert a Mel Gibson joke), Justin Bieber — and, in what became something of a running gag, women pooping (thanks, Bridesmaids).
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Lewis and his admirers on the right constantly claim he's had great success in sorting out wayward black boys, so it was no surprise that he smirkingly chose a young black man called John for Harrison to handle.
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Michael Bakkensen makes for a smirkingly unfunny Parolles, the coward awash in vanity who works for Bertram.
'All's Well That Ends Well' is ailing at Shakespeare Theatre Company 2010
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Geeks smirkingly point out other people's ironic failings to which they are not self-aware.
Archive 2009-07-01 2009
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I can't decide if, when he labelled the SNP Conference a "hate fest", Tom Harris was smirkingly thinking to himself 'this'll wind them up' or whether he was genuinely believing what he was writing with hopefully ironic vein-throbbing ire.
Tom Harris vs SNP Jeff 2009
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Geeks smirkingly point out other people's ironic failings to which they are not self-aware.
Geeks vs Hipsters 2009
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Well, at least he's covered his azz on this (he thinks smirkingly).
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I can't decide if, when he labelled the SNP Conference a "hate fest", Tom Harris was smirkingly thinking to himself 'this'll wind them up' or whether he was genuinely believing what he was writing with hopefully ironic vein-throbbing ire.
Archive 2009-10-01 Jeff 2009
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There's that sense of an Autumnal chill in the air every time the smug wee laddie smirkingly self congratulates.
The New Nixon Newmania 2007
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Johnny Boy headed straight for the public airways, where he smirkingly gushed that the streets of Iraq are now "safe."
John McCain In A "Nutshell"-- Philanderer, War Pimp, Bush Policy Clone, and Neocon Liar... 2008
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