Smirky

Origin

smirk + -y

Full definition of smirky

Adjective

1. Smirking, or as if smirking
• He introduced himself, smiling a smirky smile borrowed from the courtiers of the stage, extended a fair-skinned talon, and while he gripped my hand in it he bent his body forward three times at the hips, as the stage courtier does, and said in the airiest and most condescending and patronizing way--I quite remember his exact language: ...
  

Derived terms

• smirkily
• smirkiness