smirk
Example Sentences
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Moments later when the score flashed across the screen, Liu simply cracked a subtle smirk.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2026
Still, I guffawed when Becket popped back into his present-day cell to poke fun at his audience, the Catholic priest: “The last thing the Church wanted was an investigation,” he says with a smirk.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 18, 2026
On Chinese social media, pictures show some users sticking couplets or upside down pictures of Malfoy's signature smirk.
From BBC • Feb. 4, 2026
Cignetti, smiling through that permanent I told ya so smirk, brushed off Indiana’s new status as the No. 1 heavy.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 7, 2025
But he would just give me this little smirk and say, “You’re wrong, but you’re not totally wrong.”
From "Amari and the Night Brothers" by B.B. Alston
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The Lingo of Body Language
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"The Great Gatsby," Chapter 1 Vocabulary
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