smirk

[Smirk]

A smirk is specific kind of smile, one that suggests self satisfaction, smugness, or even pleasure at someone else's unhappiness or misfortune.

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

Noun
a smile expressing smugness or scorn instead of pleasure

Verb
smile affectedly or derisively


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

n.
A forced or affected smile; a simper.

a.
Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering.


Smirk

Smirk , v. i. [imp. & p. p. Smirked ; p. pr. & vb. n. Smirking.] [OE. smirken, ASS. smercian, smearcian; cf. MHG. smieren, smielen, to smile. See Smile, v. i.] To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

Smirk

Smirk, n. A forced or affected smile; a simper.
The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.

Smirk

Smirk, a. Nice,; smart; spruce; affected; simpering. "So smirk, so smooth." Spenser.

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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Usage Examples

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.

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