simpering

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  1. Wearing or accompanied by a simper; hence, affected; silly. Mr. Legality is a cheat; and for his son Civility, notwithstanding his simpering looks, he is but a hypocrite, and cannot help thee. Bunyan, Pilgrim's Progress, i. Smiling with a simpring grace. Times' Whistle (E. E. T. S.), p. 29. Forming his features into a set smile, and affectedly softening his voice, he added, with a simpering air, “Have you been long in Bath, Madam?” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, iii.

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  • She was interrupted by her sister, who said, simpering, 'You forgot Sir J.S.' —  Lady Mary Wortley Montague
  • But she was not so much to blame as her parents for her simpering and tossing the head with overstocked affectation. —  A Woman's Life-Work
  • He has treated her disgracefully - neglected her for a simpering little doll who thinks she's an actress because she's got a pretty face -- - —  Best Detective Stories
  • Mycela's smile is not quite simpering, Lorn and Ryalth bow ever so slightly to the white-clad younger woman. —  Scion of Cyador
  • It was an office, one table smothered in maps which, in turn, were littered with empty cups and plates, snuff boxes, two half eaten pieces of cold toast, a single spur and a marble bust of Napoleon on which someone, presumably Nairn, had inked embellishments which made the Emperor of the French look like a simpering weakling. —  Sharpe's Enemy
 

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