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Definition of "smirkingly" []

  • In a smirking manner. (adverb)

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Use "smirkingly" in a sentence
  • "The targets in his smirkingly off-color but ineffectual monologue couldn't have been more obvious and tired: Kim Kardashian, Eddie Murphy, Jodie Foster's Beaver (a roundabout way to insert a Mel Gibson joke), Justin Bieber — and, in what became something of a running gag, women pooping (thanks, Bridesmaids)."
  • "Lewis and his admirers on the right constantly claim he's had great success in sorting out wayward black boys, so it was no surprise that he smirkingly chose a young black man called John for Harrison to handle."
  • "Michael Bakkensen makes for a smirkingly unfunny Parolles, the coward awash in vanity who works for Bertram."