Words similar to smirk

Example sentences for: smirk

How can you use “smirk” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Rorty says radical academicians should wipe that sophistical smirk off their faces, lose their mocking disdain for America, and view it more as their progressive ancestors did: as a great, problem-filled country that must be brought into closer alignment with its ideals.
Such things can often raise a chuckle from those who appreciate the incongruity of the item and those who smirk with smug superiority.
To Wolff's all-knowing smirk, CMP pulls the plug on the NetGuide concept a couple of years later, after having dropped tens of millions on it.
Young R----, a summer intern, used the word constantly but with a smirk.
In Painting for Posterity, an article by Amy Sutherland in the Maine Sunday Telegram , Section E, 1 September 1996, there was this: [in a portrait] Too broad of a smile could look maniacal, or like a smirk.