Smirk

Quick meaning: Smirk is a noun meaning An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

Meaning

An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.

More Meanings

1. A forced or affected smile.
2. To smile in a way that is affected, smug, insolent or contemptuous.
3. (obsolete) smart; spruce; affected; simpering

Example Sentences

So smirk, so smooth, his pricked Ears.

The bride, all smirk and blush, had just entered.

We sat at a long table with a huge salmon on a platter in the center, prepared Szechuan style. Dad sat at one end of the table, and regaled all present with his stories. In the middle of one convoluted yarn, he rose and went around to the salmon in the center of the table. Using his fingers, he dug an eyeball out of the fish, popped it in his mouth and swallowed it whole as we looked on, aghast. “A real delicacy,” he said, with a boyish smirk.

Word Forms

• smirks
• smirke
• smirking
• smirked

Synonyms for smirk

Depending on context, synonyms include simper.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include simper, grin, smile, sneer, smile-smirk, smirkfest.

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