Meaning of smile-smirk | Babel Free

Definitions

To smile while smirking.

Examples

“She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren’t men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.”

“Having inarticulately “rung the bell,” Douce “smilesmirks,” but nothing comes from her lips until the show is over and she teases Blazes Boylan (flirting with him, not Lenehan) that he is “the essence of vulgarity?' Never mind that her surname is French for “sweet,” she goes sour when Boylan leaves the pub immediately thereafter, for an assignation with Bloom's wife Molly.”

“He clanged open the register, still smile-smirking—Holy moly, it was really happening, what an adventure, wait'll he told the guys!”

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