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The bar feels characteristically low on “Hollywood’s Bleeding,” with the 25-year-old quasi-rapping toward dirtbag catharsis, cultivating his dark art with a smirk.
ALBUM OF THE YEAR IS THE GRAMMY THAT NOBODY DESERVES TO WINCHRIS RICHARDSMARCH 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTSo when the Norwegian committee decided to award the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize to the World Food Program, the United Nations’ food assistance agency, it was no surprise that the news was greeted with more than a few smirks and eye-rolls.
WHY PEOPLE STILL STARVE IN AN AGE OF ABUNDANCEBOBBIE JOHNSONDECEMBER 17, 2020MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEWSo when we hear the knee-jerk smirk of our age, when anyone says “Asterisk Dodgers,” just respond, “For shame.”
NO ASTERISK REQUIRED: THESE DODGERS WERE HISTORICALLY GREAT — AND LEGITIMATE CHAMPIONSTHOMAS M. BOSWELLOCTOBER 29, 2020WASHINGTON POSTThe tiniest smirk crawled across Patrick Ewing’s face as the question was asked, a small curl starting from the right corner of his mouth.
BIG EAST COACHES PICK GEORGETOWN TO FINISH LAST. PATRICK EWING SAYS THAT’S ABOUT RIGHT.KAREEM COPELANDOCTOBER 28, 2020WASHINGTON POSTAnd feeding high, and living soft,Grew plump and able-bodied; Until the grave churchwarden doff'd,The parson smirk'd and nodded.
THE BOOK OF HUMOROUS VERSEVARIOUSThere is a serene self-satisfied smirk on the marble face, which looks more like that of a woman than a man.
ROUND THE WONDERFUL WORLDG. E. MITTONThere was a smirk of pharisaical satisfaction on their faces.
MY NEW CURATEP.A. SHEEHANTiflin flashed a smirk that showed that his front teeth were missing.
THE PLANET STRAPPERSRAYMOND ZINKE GALLUNIt cost a smirk or smile; Jehu had hundreds at command, and the accident was amended.
BLACKWOOD'S EDINBURGH MAGAZINE, NO. CCCXXVIII. FEBRUARY, 1843. VOL. LIII.VARIOUSSomething in my appearance, or force of habit, or both brought him to his feet, and wiped away the smirk from his face.
RICHARD CARVEL, COMPLETEWINSTON CHURCHILLSYNONYM OF THE DAY
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021
WORDS RELATED TO SMIRK
- announcements
- arguments
- articulations
- assertions
- asseverations
- choice of words
- commentaries
- communications
- declarations
- definitions
- deliveries
- diction
- elucidations
- emphases
- enunciations
- executions
- explanations
- expositions
- formulations
- idioms
- interpretations
- intonations
- issues
- languages
- locutions
- mentions
- narrations
- phraseology
- phrases
- phrasings
- pronouncements
- remarks
- renditions
- set phrases
- speakings
- speeches
- statements
- styles
- terms
- turn of phrases
- utterances
- vents
- voices
- voicings
- words
- writs
- air
- appearance
- aspect
- cast
- clock
- countenance
- dial
- disguise
- display
- facet
- features
- finish
- frontage
- frontal
- frontispiece
- frown
- glower
- grimace
- guise
- kisser
- light
- lineaments
- look
- makeup
- map
- mask
- mug
- obverse
- paint
- physiognomy
- pout
- presentation
- profile
- scowl
- seeming
- semblance
- show
- showing
- silhouette
- simulacrum
- smirk
- surface
- top
- visage
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