The targets in his smirkingly off-color but ineffectual monologue couldn't have been more obvious and tired: Kim Kardashian, Eddie Murphy, Jodie Foster's Beaver (a roundabout way to insert a Mel Gibson joke), Justin Bieber — and, in what became something of a running gag, women pooping (thanks, Bridesmaids). ❋ Unknown (2012)
Lewis and his admirers on the right constantly claim he's had great success in sorting out wayward black boys, so it was no surprise that he smirkingly chose a young black man called John for Harrison to handle. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Michael Bakkensen makes for a smirkingly unfunny Parolles, the coward awash in vanity who works for Bertram. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Geeks smirkingly point out other people's ironic failings to which they are not self-aware. ❋ Unknown (2009)
I can't decide if, when he labelled the SNP Conference a "hate fest", Tom Harris was smirkingly thinking to himself 'this'll wind them up' or whether he was genuinely believing what he was writing with hopefully ironic vein-throbbing ire. ❋ Jeff (2009)
Well, at least he's covered his azz on this (he thinks smirkingly). ❋ Unknown (2009)
There's that sense of an Autumnal chill in the air every time the smug wee laddie smirkingly self congratulates. ❋ Newmania (2007)
Before you smirkingly and smugly attack me maybe you had better consider the fact that you are outgunned when it comes to both logic and delivery of that logic. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Insofar as it matters at all this debate will probably go down as one in which Sarah Palin failed to answer many if any questions directly, but did empathise smirkingly with Main Street for the most part. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Johnny Boy headed straight for the public airways, where he smirkingly gushed that the streets of Iraq are now "safe." ❋ Unknown (2008)
He is obviously much superior to his titular boss in intellect and in real ability to have things done; said nominal leader is absolutely reliable in smirkingly pronouncing any lie whatsoever to further Cheney's schemes, with a folksy chuckle and a naughty wink off-camera. ❋ Unknown (2008)
This is to say that we men who smirkingly condescend to so-called “chick flicks” reach for our handkerchiefs when we are shown a memory scene of a late father teaching his teenage son how to drive. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Bill Clinton was smirkingly hailed as our first "black president" — he was, as Toni Morrison had it, born poor to a single mother. ❋ Unknown (2008)
Before you smirkingly and smugly attack me maybe you had better consider the fact that you are outgunned when it comes to both logic and delivery of that logic. you say you never waste your time but you just did there (ooooh scary) mr Evil. ❋ Unknown (2006)
All of us can relate to the fierce struggle wrought by an economy that has transformed housing and healthcare (forget dentistry altogether) into luxuries, given us job security on a wing and a prayer and forced upon businesses a risk-reward ratio that most professional gamblers would smirkingly walk away from. ❋ James Taranto (2007)
Not only is this a clear straying from common sense, moronically and smirkingly delivered behind a facade which I suppose is intended to impress us as being clever lawerly parsing or logic; it goes beyond lack of common sense and dives into the numbing waters of total ignorance about what rightsactually are. ❋ Unknown (2007)
As soon as one lie's usefulness is ended, he smirkingly substitutes another, without pausing to consider any need for continuity between the two. ❋ Unknown (2005)
