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Example sentences for: smirking

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Yes, the book as a whole is insufferably smug (with Cornel West at the head of the smirking line) and politically correct.
Operators are standing by, presumably poking one another in the ribs and smirking.
Others are quietly smirking, ready for the kill."
Sadly, there is no chapter on smirking per se in Ekman and Rosenberg's book.
) But there are three chapters in the book that may nonetheless be relevant to the smirking question: