smirk in English

noun
1
a smug, conceited, or silly smile.
Gloria pursed her mouth in a self-satisfied smirk
verb
1
smile in an irritatingly smug, conceited, or silly way.
he smirked in triumph
synonyms:smile smuglysimpersnickersniggerleer

Use "smirk" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "smirk" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "smirk", or refer to the context using the word "smirk" in the English Dictionary.

1. The smirk spread into a smile.

2. "Comfortable?" he asked with a smirk.

3. It was hard not to smirk.

4. The boys tried not to smirk.

5. She gave a knowing smirk.

6. Compare smirk, sneer, frown, scowl and grimace. Sentencedict.com

7. Wipe that smirk off your face!

8. He made no attempt to conceal his smirk.

9. He said, with something of a smirk.

10. To smirk or laugh in contempt or derision.

11. I'll smack that smirk off your face, punk!

12. He saw the smirk on Donald's glassy face.

13. She had a selfsatisfied smirk on her face.

14. But a shifty, rather criminal smirk, lingered in her eyes.

15. Object of the half-amused smirk from the quasi Cognoscente

16. (Laughter) So the smile is positive, a smirk is often negative.

17. Does George Bush possess a disarming grin, or a facetious smirk?

18. So instead of being outraged, one is left with a resigned smirk.

19. Tundrish leered back - a smirk generally twisted his spider tattoo into a predatory posture.

20. As he reviewed the figures a slight smirk crept over his face.

21. Does George Bush possess a disarming grin,[Sentence dictionary] or a facetious smirk?

22. She knew Ken hated being babied but persisted after a quick glance at Joe's smirk.

23. Toad began to sit up in his chair again, and to smirk a little.

24. A smirk flickered at the corner of his mouth as he watched my struggle.

25. 30 Tundrish leered back - a smirk generally twisted his spider tattoo into a predatory posture.

26. You've got about a second to lose that smirk before I slap it off your face.

27. "Maybe your husband does things that you don't know about, " he said with a smirk.

28. Hebden's smile widened to a smirk with the relief of victory: the superintendent was about to leave.

29. Mr Spitzer, asked recently about his guns - blazing style, replied with a smirk, That wasn't guns going.

30. We had to do it so every jump and smash and roll and smirk and glimmer and kiss we did .

31. But she sees him suppress what could only be a smirk at her very mention of a dybbuk.

32. The brazen response of some was to smirk, for beating the system-any system-was a legitimate aspiration.

33. We smirk because we believe that synthetic happiness is not of the same quality as what we might call " natural happiness. "

34. Our more skeptical age is apt to greet a performance like this with a smirk, as just more fussy Victorian moralism.

35. Please, young women, smile or simper or smirk or grin, glower or glare, or just mope about if you like, but for the love of God, please put away the duck face.

36. With their large sparkly and inquisitive eyes, and cute little smirk, Ty Beanie Boos look like they may come to life and give you a “BOO-P” on the nose.

37. Smith is respectful of Biblicists throughout, but many readers, I suspect, will read the list, smirk, and move on, eyes rolling at the barefoot yahoos who still stalk the land

38. 22 Please, young women, smile or simper or smirk or grin, glower or glare, or just mope about if you like, but for the love of God, please put away the duck face.

39. In ‘The Flâneur or The Observer Observed’, the poet dissects a favourite figure in literary modernism, the city wanderer who “Botanises faces in the crowd”, leisured smirk implicit as he clocks a woman who: If she’s strolling on her own— if she’s clearly …

40. ‘Annoyingly, a little voice popped up in my head and muttered, "At least he's here to tutor you."’ ‘Annoyingly, he was still wearing that smirk, his pale eyes narrowed into near slits.’ ‘She couldn't make out the lyrics, and the bass seemed Annoyingly out of rhythm.’

41. A belated spin-off of Steven Soderbergh’s Ocean’s caper comedies (minus the earlier films’ wit, chemistry, and style), Ocean’s 8 could learn a thing or two about brevity and craft: It Belabors the basic plot points Ocean’s 11 dispatched with a single cut or smirk, the result a hacky imitation of the series’ glitzy pizzazz