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  • President Elect - aka the Smirking Chancer - Anthony Blair, has gone from pro abortionist to Roman Catholic in one leap & bound.

    WordPress.com News 2009

  • Google does not edit the Internet, but Salon's editors edit Salon, and Salon was a happy trafficker in such imagery, promoting and linking to such clever and highbrow web content as "Bush or Chimp?" and the raging river of anti-Bush invective known as Smirking Chimp.

    Media Blog on National Review Online 2009

  • I'm thinking of changing my "Smirking" handle as of tomorrow BTW ....

    Zogby: Obama Leading In Several Close Red States, Easily Holding Pennsylvania 2009

  • "Smirking" suggests insincere smiles, "glozing" implies tolerating or lightly passing over faults or wrongs or serious matters that should not be considered lightly.

    Books and Habits from the Lectures of Lafcadio Hearn Lafcadio Hearn 1877

  • Smirking while watching the utter bedlam on television, then, in the cafeteria, it was at this point where I boldly made my assumptions known.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Smirking postmodernity images the fan as the sad geekish Trekkie, pathetically, fetishistically invested in what – all good sense knows – is embarrassing trivia.

    Critique From HereNow Hal Duncan 2009

  • Smirking as I watched the drive curve just foul, I remained composed.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Thank you so much for your comment Smirking Cat, you've put forward an idea I didn't think to go into, and you're absolutely right that these men know they can get away with it.

    Hard to Define zombietron 2009

  • Smirking while watching the utter bedlam on television, then, in the cafeteria, it was at this point where I boldly made my assumptions known.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

  • Smirking as I watched the drive curve just foul, I remained composed.

    One Season William Fredrick Cooper 2011

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