Word Meanings - SMIRK - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To smile in an affected or conceited manner; to smile with affected complaisance; to simper.

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• AFFECTATIONIST
  One who exhibits affectation. Fitzed. Hall.
• AFFECTION
  Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison. 7. The lively representation of any emotion. Wotton. 8. Affectation. "Spruce affection." Shak. 9. Passion; violent emotion. Most wretched man, That to affections
• AFFECTIBILITY
  The quality or state of being affectible.
• SMILER
  One who smiles. Tennyson.
• AFFECTIVELY
  In an affective manner; impressively; emotionally.
• CONCEITEDLY
  1. In an egotistical manner. 2. Fancifully; whimsically.
• CONCEITEDNESS
  The state of being conceited; conceit; vanity. Addison.
• AFFECTIONED
  1. Disposed. Be kindly affectioned one to another. Rom. xii. 10. 2. Affected; conceited. Shak.
• AFFECTER
  One who affects, assumes, pretends, or strives after. "Affecters of wit." Abp. Secker.
• AFFECTIVE
  1. Tending to affect; affecting. Burnet. 2. Pertaining to or exciting emotion; affectional; emotional. Rogers.
• AFFECTIONATED
  Disposed; inclined. Affectionated to the people. Holinshed.
• AFFECTIONATE
  1. Having affection or warm regard; loving; fond; as, an affectionate brother. 2. Kindly inclined; zealous. Johson. Man, in his love God, and desire to please him, can never be too affectionate. Sprat. 3. Proceeding from affection; indicating
• MANNERIST
  One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
• AFFECTEDLY
  1. In an affected manner; hypocritically; with more show than reality. 2. Lovingly; with tender care. Shak.
• AFFECTEDNESS
  Affectation.
• SIMPERING
  from Simper, v.
• SMILE
  mirari to wonder at, Skr. smi to smile; and probably to E. smicker. 1. To express amusement, pleasure, moderate joy, or love and kindness, by the features of the face; to laugh silently. He doth nothing but frown . . . He hears merry tales and
• COMPLAISANCE
  Disposition to please or oblige; obliging compliance with the wishes of others; a deportment indicative of a desire to please; courtesy; civility. These . . . are by the just complaisance and gallantry of our nation the most powerful part of our
• MANNERISM
  Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural
• AFFECTIBLE
  That may be affected. Lay aside the absolute, and, by union with the creaturely, become affectible. Coleridge.
• OVERAFFECT
  To affect or care for unduly. Milton.
• MISAFFECT
  To dislike.
• UNMANNERLY
  Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv.
• INAFFECTED
  Unaffected. -- In`af*fect"ed*ly, adv.
• SELF-CONCEIT
  Conceit of one's self; an overweening opinion of one's powers or endowments. Syn. -- See Egotism.
• MISAFFECTED
  Ill disposed.
• MISAFFECTION
  An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. Bp. Hall.
• DISAFFECTED
  Alienated in feeling; not wholly loyal. J. H. Newman. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ly, adv. -- Dis`af*fect"ed*ness, n.