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Definition of Smirking
1. smirk [v] - See also: smirk
Lexicographical Neighbors of Smirking
Literary usage of Smirking
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal by Charles Dickens (1869)
"... fat landlord and his buxom dame bowing and smirking in the doorway, happy to
have a stranger guest. Horse and chaise were stowed away—where, I knew not, ..."
2. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
"pacing the cabin quietly ; and in so doing he approached the group of Wilkins
and Duffy. smirking slightly, notwithstanding a gloomy under-thought about the ..."
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