Definitions
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- noun One who
smirks .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied
Etymologies
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Examples
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He was a poor campaigner, a smug, unctuous, uninspiring, sanctimonious smirker so eager to please other establishment types that he let himself get steamrolled in his debate with Dick Cheney and then sat there looking grateful for it.
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Then there was the smirker, who still defies explanation or excuse.
Lance Mannion: 2010
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He was a poor campaigner, a smug, unctuous, uninspiring, sanctimonious smirker so eager to please other establishment types that he let himself get steamrolled in his debate with Dick Cheney and then sat there looking grateful for it.
Lance Mannion: 2009
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Then there was the smirker, who still defies explanation or excuse.
Updated: My mothers review of the State of the Union Address 2010
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I DID peg you to be a smirker … a smug, snarky, smirker.
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He has a sardonic sense of humor and is a master smirker.
Freud’s Blind Spot Elisa Albert 2010
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"Are you happy to have a body scan," said the smirker.
Diary 2010
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Angela is our precocious video-blogger, a self-possessed but barely self-aware smirker who insists that her video diary is about “making a difference.”
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Add tales of evil swallowed and pain about to be inflicted, told in wisecracks by a smirker whose voice never left puberty, with a slogan: "God sent me to piss the world off."
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Riverwind lashed out with one long leg and caught the smirker in the chest.
Riverwind the Plainsman Thompson, Paul B. 1990
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