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Example sentences for: smirk

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But it was a suppressed smirk that said, "I'm trying to hide my contempt, but I can't hide it completely."
Concluding that the matter of Bush's smirk was too weighty to be left in the hands of nonscientists, Chatterbox e-mailed Paul Ekman, professor of psychology at the University of California at San Francisco.
Bush's compulsion to smile is essentially southern, but the smile itself is corrupted by other influences (a few possibilities were cited in Chatterbox's previous item) that transform it into a smirk;
This might mean George W.'s apparent smirk is merely a forced smile, not a smug or mean or even dishonest one.
'" Presumably Bush himself got the message; his smirk was not much in evidence at this week's Arizona debate.