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smirk

[smurk] / smɜrk /
NOUN
sly smile
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Mr. Garner combed his thinning hair to the side and the twins smirked as they waved to the camera before their dad slightly nudged them from the back and they took on a somber pose.

From Literature

Going against everything he knew, everything his father had taught him, he joined the others at the curb, ignoring the smirks and clucking sounds.

From Literature

Nobody quite knows who decided to give them icing eyes and smirks.

From Salon

He’d smirked at me, because I had graduated two years earlier with no such honors.

From Literature

Unless it was the dusty old times table chart peeling off the back wall that was suddenly fascinating her, it had to be me, I reckoned, steeling my lips against the pull of a smirk.

From Literature