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What is the difference between "a smirk" and "a grin"?
4. Juli 2016 13:14
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A grin is a smile, often smaller without teeth showing. The only time I think of a grin as large is if there are modifiers "a big grin" or "a fool's grin".
A smirk is often negative in some way. It might be a half-smile. Or a sarcastic smile. Or a know-it-all. Or at someone else's dismay or pain.
4. Juli 2016
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A grin is smile, a smirk is a smile with an attitude of over-confidence or pleasure in someone else's failure. Here is a good picture of a smirk http://pre00.deviantart.net/478e/th/pre/f/2008/001/6/d/smirk_by_agrivaine.jpg
and another one https://dubsism.files.wordpress.com/2010/11/oj-simpson-smirk.jpg?w=547
4. Juli 2016
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Hi Dariana,
A smirk is similar to a grin, but the main difference is usually that a smirk is half hidden. It's not hidden enough to not actually be a kind of smile, but it's not a full grin, with the face beaming. A smirk can often be irritating or conceited, and can often be related to gloating over some kind of victory.
A grin, on the other hand, is simply when a person is smiling, big and broad across their face with no attempt to hide it at all.
4. Juli 2016
I am wondering, too :))
4. Juli 2016
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