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smile?

noun

A facial expression comprised by flexing the muscles of both ends of one's mouth, often showing the front teeth, without vocalisation, and in humans is a common involuntary or voluntary expression of happiness, pleasure, amusement or anxiety.

  • She's got a perfect smile. He has a sinister smile. She had a smile on her face. He always puts a smile on my face.

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You know when a novelist writes, "You could hear the smile in her voice," and it's sometimes difficult to imagine?

He does smile sometimes.

"Laura's smile could light up a room and her infectious laughter will be remembered by many for years to come," her family said in a statement to Newsday.

"But will you take it - if they give you?" A smile.

One day, though, I got to ask him the big question: "Tell me sir, why do you think they haven't given you the Nobel prize?" After a long pause and an amused smile, he replied, "Well, it is a European prize, and only once in a while, when they find you worthy, do they give it out to non-Europeans".

Tsotie's habitual warm smile is notably absent as she talks about the erstwhile occupant of room number six.

"The stumps don't move," Wood replied, with a smile.

This third collection by the Irish poet is full of luminous imagery and sometimes a gentle, almost wistful, touch, as in "Brigie": "When you smile in your sleep / I think of the seal's tail / whispering above the waves, / slipping back again into the deep".

"I'm not saying anything," Lehmann responded with a smile.

Salmond, almost visibly relieved that his self-imposed campaigning ban for the duration of the Games was drawing to an end, replied with a smile: "Ask me tomorrow".

And after Thatcher's memorable fall in November 1990, her predecessor wore Westminster's widest, toothiest smile and borrowed one of her own phrases: "Rejoice, rejoice".

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