smirkilyadv.
= smirkingly adv.
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a1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 135 There they were today looking at Jennie rather smugly and smirkily.
1978 Guardian Weekly 5 Feb. 18/3 Cryptic allusions..to padlocks and fetters, which most recent biographers have smirkily interpreted as meaning that he was a masochist.
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adv.a1974- out front
- out in collar
- out in the cold
- out in the open
- out in the sticks
- out into the open
- out loud
- out measure
- out of
- out of a clear blue sky
- out of a clear sky
- out of a job
- out of a person's books
- out of a person's expectation
- out of a person's expectations
- out of a person's fingers
- out of a person's game
- out of a person's governance
- out of a person's head
- out of a person's knowledge
- out of a person's lash
- out of a person's own head
- out of a person's reach
- out of a person's reverence
- out of a person's road