ˈsmirkily, adv.
[f. smirky a. + -ly2.]
= smirkingly adv.
| a 1974 R. Crossman Diaries (1975) I. 135 There they were today looking at Jennie rather smugly and smirkily. 1978 Guardian Weekly 5 Feb. 18/3 Cryptic allusions..to padlocks and fetters, which most recent biographers have smirkily interpreted as meaning that he was a masochist. |