Get to know Smirk better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning and synonyms like smile or smiling.
Smirk meaning
- An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.
- A forced or affected smile.
Using Smirk
- The main meaning on this page is: An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful. | A forced or affected smile.
- Useful related words include: smile, smiling, grin, grinning.
- In the example corpus, smirk often appears in combinations such as: smirk on, with smirk, knowing smirk.
Context around Smirk
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.2 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 6 middle, 11 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Smirk
- In this selection, "smirk" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 22.2 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, knowing, little, slightest, aka, tonally and behind stand out and add context to how "smirk" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include with a smirk and a knowing smirk. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "smirk" sits close to words such as abaribe, abbasids and abstentions, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with smirk
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
I like that,” Sanders continued with a smirk. (8 words)
Kyle could only respond with a wry smirk. (8 words)
And Golda’s smirk is always to die for. (9 words)
So it is impossible now to think of Essex without thinking also of vapid women in leopard print and heels; of the jokes which begin, say: “How does an Essex girl hold her liquor?” and end with a schoolboy smirk. (40 words)
You can drop into the label’s catalog just about anywhere and find something cool, but a good place to start would be the first proper full-length from Smirk, aka Los Angeles songwriter Nick Vicario. (36 words)
What we’re now witnessing in America is a revolting pageant of white patriarchal power that would make rapist Strom Thurmond chuckle from the grave and Thomas Jefferson toast his wineglass with a knowing smirk. (35 words)
Example sentences (20)
And Golda’s smirk is always to die for.
I like that,” Sanders continued with a smirk.
She was hunched over, clearly feeling like sh*t, but she had this little smirk on her face.
You can drop into the label’s catalog just about anywhere and find something cool, but a good place to start would be the first proper full-length from Smirk, aka Los Angeles songwriter Nick Vicario.
A CNN employee actually complained on CNN that journalists will be “tied up” by court cases without the slightest smirk over how Trump has been perennially tied up in legal actions against him.
A satisfied smirk from Trump as he arrives at his election night party.
At least one of the new moms knows what she needs to do to get camera time — create drama — and she goes about achieving that goal with a knowing smirk.
But, for the most part, the director’s attacks are made with a wicked smirk – tonally, it’s like someone made a porn parody of a Brian De Palma film.
Eyebrows raised with indignity, and while Kamala Harris suppressed a smirk behind him, Biden launched into his most disgraceful and unscripted moment of the night.
The latter wore a permanent smirk while Hill was speaking, a fact that failed to escape Hill and appeared to lead him into a more argumentative, irascible state than usual.
What we’re now witnessing in America is a revolting pageant of white patriarchal power that would make rapist Strom Thurmond chuckle from the grave and Thomas Jefferson toast his wineglass with a knowing smirk.
With a smirk on her face, she looks up at the nine-months pregnant woman and doesn't say anything.
Ask any boxer or trainer about the mythical pound-for-pound rankings and you’ll usually get one of two responses: a smirk or a massive eye-roll.
Boris Johnson, who pops up in “with his bumbling Etonian manner and ironic smirk”, was “comic right up until he became prime minister,” Coe says.
Kevin made his threats and got a small smirk in return.
Kyle could only respond with a wry smirk.
So it is impossible now to think of Essex without thinking also of vapid women in leopard print and heels; of the jokes which begin, say: “How does an Essex girl hold her liquor?” and end with a schoolboy smirk.
Farrell was caught on camera with a big smirk on his face as Kieran Read led his troops in the Kapa O Pango.
Great Anime Pornography, the fruit of the field,” she began with a smirk.
I don’t know,” he says with a smirk.
Common combinations with smirk
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- smirk on 8×
- with smirk 5×
- knowing smirk 2×
- smirk was 2×