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Example sentences for: smirking

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Operators are standing by, presumably poking one another in the ribs and smirking.
USAT describes King upon his condemnation as "unrepentant and smirking," and notes that he is the first white person to face execution for killing a black person in modern Texas history.
Others are quietly smirking, ready for the kill."
Yes, the book as a whole is insufferably smug (with Cornel West at the head of the smirking line) and politically correct.
) But there are three chapters in the book that may nonetheless be relevant to the smirking question: