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I know the meaning of smirk but I am not able to understand its meaning in below sentence. I want to know in which contest this is used. Pls help me.
There was a time when the “made in Japan” label brought a predictable smirk of superiority to the face of most Americans. The quality of most Japanese products usually was as low as their price. In fact, few imports could match their domestic counterparts, the proud products of Yankee know-how.
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smirk: (verb) to smile in an unpleasant way because something bad has happened to someone else, or because you think you have achieved an advantage over them This is the dictionary definition, and it is the same definition that explains the word "smirk" in your quotation. Your quotation has the noun form, and that's the unpleasant smile described above. There was a time when the “made in Japan” label brought a predictable smirk of superiority to the face of most Americans.
- smirk: (verb) to smile in an unpleasant way because something bad has happened to someone else, or because you think you have achieved an advantage over them This is the dictionary definition, and it is the same definition that explains the word "smirk" in your quotation.
- Your quotation has the noun form, and that's the unpleasant smile described above.
- There was a time when the “made in Japan” label brought a predictable smirk of superiority to the face of most Americans.
- ~ At one time, in the past, when an American saw the label "Made in Japan", he would smirk because Japanese products were considered inferior.
- ) CJ
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smirk: (verb) to smile in an unpleasant way because something bad has happened to someone else, or because you think you have achieved an advantage over them
This is the dictionary definition, and it is the same definition that explains the word "smirk" in your quotation. Your quotation has the noun form, and that's the unpleasant smile described above.
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