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smile-smirking

smile-smirking is the present participle and gerund of smile-smirk.

Meaning of smile-smirk

Verb

smile-smirk (third-person singular simple present smile-smirks, present participle smile-smirking, simple past and past participle smile-smirked)

  1. To smile while smirking.
    • She smilesmirked supercilious (wept! aren’t men?), but, lightward gliding, mild she smiled on Boylan.1922 February 2, James Joyce, “[Episode 11: Sirens]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC, part II [Odyssey], page 256

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Questions about smile-smirking

What is smile-smirking the present participle and gerund of?
Smile-smirking is the present participle and gerund of smile-smirk.

Words near smile-smirking in the dictionary

  1. smile lines
  2. smile school
  3. smile schools
  4. smile-smirk
  5. smile-smirked
  6. smile-smirking
  7. smile-smirks
  8. smiled
  9. smiled a thousand smiles
  10. smiled from ear to ear
  11. smiled like a mule eating briars

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Adapted from Wiktionary: smile-smirking (page history and authors); smile-smirk (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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