Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Same as
smirk .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Smirk; smirking.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
Smirking , or as if smirking
Etymologies
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Examples
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The brilliant Camille Paglia (who has the gift of becoming more and not less interesting with age) pointed out in Salon that Obama's "smirky" smearers have been busying themselves so assiduously with Rush Limbaugh that they forgot they have a second job: helping America's chief executive govern the country.
Ashley Rindsberg: Century of Smear: Obama, Rush Limbaugh, and Wikipedia 2009
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Reality is biting these people in the ass, and they have no choice but to fight back with racist slurs, innuendo, McCarthyite claims and third-grade-level smirky jokes.
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Those weedy boll weevils and the smirky lizards are witnesses to her behavior.
The Town Secrets Meakin Armstrong 2011
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And so, I want to have its action-y, smirky-ey babies pronto!!!
VID: Hammer Time...aka Ten Explains Physics rabid1st 2009
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One work deadline turned into three, I received an urgent message from Jacob's school to have a meeting about his smirky, end-of-fifth-grade-attitude towards a kid who was bugging the bits out of him, and while making school lunches that morning, I felt like I was in the tilt-a-whirl at Disneyworld.
Karen Brody: Are You There, Sleep? It's Me, A Mom On The Edge Karen Brody 2011
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"Franco came off like that lacrosse boy you wish your daughter didn't hang out with so much, sort of heavy-lidded and smirky and ..."
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Bush found a way to piss me off even in a charitable moment by the smirky way he said “Just send your cash”.
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Now there was a pair – the first a diplomat sharing American good will overseas by hurling in the lap of the Japanese premier, the second destroying our image, incapable of speaking in extended sentences – he of the smirky grin, and lying to chase oil in the Middle East and to restore his Daddy's besmirked reputation.
GOP senator warns of 'minor revolution' over health care 2009
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I noticed that the smirky, winky demeanor was exactly the same demeanor he had before he went on the air (it was in Fahrenheit 9/11) to announce war.
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One work deadline turned into three, I received an urgent message from Jacob's school to have a meeting about his smirky, end-of-fifth-grade-attitude towards a kid who was bugging the bits out of him, and while making school lunches that morning, I felt like I was in the tilt-a-whirl at Disneyworld.
Karen Brody: Are You There, Sleep? It's Me, A Mom On The Edge Karen Brody 2011
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