smirk
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“Hilarious,” Smart said with a smirk of the postgame skirmish.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 27, 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
“All because my dad hit his head at this park,” Soboroff says with a smirk, recalling the incident that set off his father’s community safety efforts.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 5, 2026
I must be left in the snow, I must be buried in a hole, I must be reprimanded and ordered not to smirk.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 2, 2025
Maddy must hear the sarcasm in my voice, because her freckled nose crinkles and her mouth twists into a smirk.
From "A Place at the Table" by Saadia Faruqi and Laura Shovan
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