semi-smile
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semi-smile (plural semi-smiles)
- A faint smile.
- 2004, Susan M. Kirschbaum, “Frills and Chills”, in The New York Observer:
- She curled her pink lips upward in a shy semi-smile.
- 1874, Mrs. Macquoid, Appletons' Journal: Volume 12, D. Appleton & Co., page 623:
- I saw him glance at his wife, and she gave a semi-smile of approval.
- A suppressed or forced smile.
- 2008, Charles H. Sylvester, Journeys Through Bookland, Volume 7, Wildside Press, page 34:
- He stood looking at nothing in particular, with the blushing, awkward air and semi-smile which are common to shy boys when in company, -- very much as if they had come into the world by mistake, and found it in a degree of undress that was quite embarrassing.
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faint smile
suppressed or forced smile
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- “semi-smile”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.