Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A faint smile; a suppressed or forced smile.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A faint smile.
- noun A suppressed or forced smile.
Etymologies
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Examples
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The buff-looking blonde in the middle, in camel-colored boot-cut pants topped with a zippered fleece vest, raised her hand and gave us a semi-smile.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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The buff-looking blonde in the middle, in camel-colored boot-cut pants topped with a zippered fleece vest, raised her hand and gave us a semi-smile.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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The buff-looking blonde in the middle, in camel-colored boot-cut pants topped with a zippered fleece vest, raised her hand and gave us a semi-smile.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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I would often be distracted by the mere sight of him, so funny and beautiful, lying there marching, marching, his arms swinging and his face set in a determined semi-frown, semi-smile.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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He looked up from his newspaper, and that semi-smile flickered, like a lightbulb that has suffered a momentary disturbance to its power supply.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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I would often be distracted by the mere sight of him, so funny and beautiful, lying there marching, marching, his arms swinging and his face set in a determined semi-frown, semi-smile.
Knowing Jesse Marianne Leone 2010
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You know the one – that slightly supercilious tooth-sucking semi-smile he uses while explaining the complicated plot of the Oceans movies to the assembled mugging superstar cast.
Up in the Air; Precious; Adoration; Where the Wild Things Are 2010
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The buff-looking blonde in the middle, in camel-colored boot-cut pants topped with a zippered fleece vest, raised her hand and gave us a semi-smile.
The Half Life Jennifer Weiner 2010
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He looked up from his newspaper, and that semi-smile flickered, like a lightbulb that has suffered a momentary disturbance to its power supply.
The Whisperers John Connolly 2010
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I love this blog and read it religiously before I head out to work, so I might make it through my day with a semi-smile on my face!
hernesheir commented on the word semi-smile
The Mona Lisa leaps to mind.
December 10, 2010