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smirking

verb as in leer

verb as in smile

verb as in snicker

verb as in beam

Strong match

verb as in snicker

verb as in simper

Weak match

verb as in grimace

verb as in grin

Strongest match

Strong matches

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Example Sentences

A smirking Ramone is shown wearing both a CBGB shirt and heavy gold chains, posing next to an enormous boombox.

Yet, after months of backdoor negotiations there was Xi, stone-facedly shaking hands with a smirking Abe.

He told me to enter while smirking, knowing full well my intentions.

No character this year is more volatile and unpredictable; you never know what the hunched-over, smirking Quell will do next.

Maria is the first “political criminal” in the family, she says, smirking between puffs of her cigarette.

I soon find out when they are trying to cheat me; then they come smirking and smiling with 'Guten Abis.'

The organ gallery appears to be a pleasant resort for a few hours' gossip and smirking.

Tarling put the girl from him and looked at the smirking manager.

All the evening we sat, almost in silence, inanely smirking at each other and listening to the rain.

Nodding and smirking at Morsfield's approach, she entreated Aminta to step up and in, for the horses were coming out of the yard.

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On this page you'll find 90 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to smirking, such as: eye, eyeball, gloat, goggle, ogle, and smirk.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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