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Discover Ludwig'smirking' is a correct and commonly used word in written English
It means to smile in a smug or self-satisfied way. Example: Despite losing the game, the rival team's captain couldn't help but smirk at the opposing team's celebration.
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Present participle of smirk
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Facebook Twitter Google plus Share Share this post Facebook Twitter Google plus close 5.55am Biden:55 'Biden risked losing viewers by constantly laughing, grinning and smirking' – Ewen MacAskill.
In a disproportionately large number of what could be termed "social catastrophes", alcohol featured hugely – squatting right at the centre of the mayhem in the manner of a smirking dipsomaniac goblin.
If he's not talking he's smirking, but more than that he's winning the ball out of the middle and doing damage with it.
I confess that I had Bush cast more in the role of the Calvin Candie-ish plantation owner, smirking from his veranda while the field hands do the work "Yeah," says Foxx. "But you don't know, because you don't know the man.
Leonardo DiCaprio plays Calvin Candie, the sadistic plantation owner, smirking into the zoom lens.
Biden risked losing viewers by constantly laughing, grinning and smirking.
Mr McCain let his contempt for the younger man shine through, harrumphing, grimacing, smirking and goggling his eyes whenever Mr Obama got a chance to speak.
He took on Shizuka Kamei, one of the staunchest opponents of Mr Koizumi within the ruling Liberal Democratic Party, and lost.While many locals, especially the smirking corporate old-guard, seem already to have judged Mr Horie and condemned him, he still has support.
Does he not deliver his speeches with an air of not quite understanding what it is all about, while smirking at all the wrong moments?
Yet a smirking Vladimir Putin and Dmitry Medvedev do not seem to be quaking in their boots indeed they think they have triumphed diplomatically as well.Like a chocolate fireguardIn this section Europe stands up to Russia How bad is it?
It was mindless and irresponsible, but the guy can work a room.Mr Huckabee was followed by Ted Cruz, who is running for the senate in Texas and has a great political future ahead of him if he can ever learn to stop smirking at his own jokes and puffing out his chest at the applause lines.
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