Word: smirking
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...persuaded of the need for serious work in college, the imposition would deserve every guffaw dispatched in its ill-fated direction. Against such sincerity there is small use to argue that undergraduates as well as faculty will recite the affirmation mechanically, with the slightest suggestion of a hypocritical smirk at the faculty of such rigamarole; it would be equally futile to maintain that if a college man is not already mature enough to appreciate his opportunities, no more administration of an oath will boost him suddenly out of his adolescence...
...Vagabond has ever been perplexed and a trifle annoyed by the reverence in which mankind holds the might and majesty of the law. By definition he is a lawless fellow. Not one who goes about with an evil smirk doing all manner of evil, but merely one whose life is bounded by no laws. He walks where he lists and he talks when he lists. It is therefore difficult for him to understand the idle gossip which he continually hears about "law and order." He has seen and heard many evidences of the power of the law. A drunken, riotous...
...chimpanzee, and the orang-ou-tang smirk and grimace behind from bars Man, the spectator, sighs as he thinks of the wonders of evolution, and his own superior state...
...spectator, sighs as he thinks--not of the wonders of evolution. His thoughts recurr to the zoo, and the smirk of the chimpanzee appears suddenly ironical...
Then, balancing a limp-plumed bonnet, in stalks Beatrice Lillie to be jostled by a bus queue for five minutes of mute martydom, wherein the only betrayal of her cold, furious resentment is a sublime, rancid smirk, and at long last a fervent "Taxi!" Nine times in all she appears, and whether it is the channel swimming scene ("Oh, pul-lease!"), or her deceptively wistful "I'm World Weary," or the Paris in 1890 scene ("They call me La Flamme because I make men mad"), she is never allowed to leave the stage until her audience is too weak...