† smirklyadv.
Obsolete. rare.
Smirkingly.
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a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. ix. sig. Nn3 Venus was glad to heare Such proffer made, which she well showd with smiling cheere... And smirkly thus gan say [etc.].
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