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Word: smirking (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Plato's Republic like everyone else in the class. But I'm not, so I giggled at the funny noise. My outburst was audible for just a second because I clenched my body to hold in the laughter. I shook violently as I attempted to hide behind my smirk, but I wasn't fooling anybody. The two upperclassmen sandwiching me on either side shifted their eyes to watch me convulse a foot away from the professor and then shook their heads in disapproving pity...

Author: By Vicky C. Hallett, | Title: always the baby | 3/11/1999 | See Source »

...cool commentator: she doesn't have anything substantive to say, but can smirk at your inane comments. But there's no reason to let you know that everyone notices that...

Author: By Aparna Sridhar, | Title: Beware Section Freaks And Geeks | 2/19/1999 | See Source »

There's something inherently smirk-inducing about a trade dispute over bananas. You've seen it in the papers in headlines like BANANA SPLIT or GOING BANANAS. But Clark Davis isn't laughing. One day the quality-assurance engineer was contentedly playing in the basement of his Wexford, Pa., home with his N-gauge model railroad--three lines spread over 36 sq. ft. of diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Banana Wars | 2/8/1999 | See Source »

...walking down the street and barked in my face, "Hey, lady, what's up with you?" Last week, I walked out of a restaurant because the man in the next booth spent the entire meal looking my friend over, from head to toe, and then, with a satisfied smirk, turned his attention...

Author: By Jenny E. Heller, | Title: Will Men Ever Stop? | 11/18/1998 | See Source »

...Citizen Kane," when journalism tycoon Charles Foster Kane receives a telegram from his Latin American correspondent insisting that reporting on Cuba might produce some nice prose poems but that "There is no war," Kane responds with a smirk, "You provide the prose poems, and I'll provide...

Author: By Marshall I. Lewy, | Title: All the News That's Fit to Sell | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

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