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Discover LudwigThe phrase "smile slightly" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it when you want to convey a subtle and restrained gesture of happiness or contentment. For example: When she heard the good news, she couldn't help but smile slightly.
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The ice man looked into my eyes and seemed to smile slightly.
Her head turned partly to one side, her lips closed but playful, her smile slightly askew.
Although the illustration begs for comment, Mr. Lerach offers none, other than to shake his head and smile slightly.
The slogan "the WMCA good guys," together with the happy face (its smile slightly crooked), was printed on thousands of sweatshirts distributed by the station, Mr. Alzamora said.
Try to tie provocative statements like that to major moments in Ms. Holmes's life, however — like her marriage to Mr. Cruise, his declarations in praise of Scientology, the birth of Suri or the couple's divorce — and she would only smile slightly and turn the conversation back to her gratitude for "Dead Accounts".
The moment the camera starts rolling, her petite frame undergoes a subtle but real transfiguration: with a huge smile, slightly bowed head and a cute wave, she becomes the girl in the rice-paper house next door, the counterpart of millions of office ladies, elevator girls and housewives in the audience.
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Brassard smiled, slightly embarrassed.
He smiled slightly.
Mr. Pham smiled slightly.
She smiled, slightly bemused.
Mr. King smiled slightly.
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