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smirk

[smurk] / smɜrk /
NOUN
sly smile
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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

Every smirk that follows a scandal, every boast of getting away with it, threatens to rewire the public’s moral compass.

From Salon • Nov. 3, 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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