Smirker

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    One who smirks.

    "He is returning to the staircase {...} when he re-meets the smirking young officer, who is on his way back down. This time the smirker has decided to be someone else entirely: he is bashful. Red-cheeked."

  2. 2
    a smiler whose smile is offensively self-satisfied wordnet

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"He is returning to the staircase {...} when he re-meets the smirking young officer, who is on his way back down. This time the smirker has decided to be someone else entirely: he is bashful. Red-cheeked."

Etymology

From smirk + -er.

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