simpering

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The little fellow advanced simpering, and raised a limp and dangling hand to about the height of his eyes.

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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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  • Even now, months after this incident, a day after her murder, Okun felt an uncontrollable surge of anger at her, for her simpering patronizing Mutterheit. —  The Lesson of Her Death
  • He came swimming into the room smiling, simpering, and bowing like a fat old lady, and sat down very demure in his chair and looked the picture of a sleek hypocrite. —  Charlotte Bronte and Her Circle
  • At least Morwen wasn't curtsying or simpering, and she hadn't started calling him "Your Majesty" yet, either. —  Searching for Dragons
  • Perhaps it was the Chianti momentarily intensifying her personality, but she was undeniably most attractive; and there were few things Mrs. Fisher disliked more than having to look on while sensible, intelligent men, who the moment before were talking seriously and interestingly about real matters, became merely foolish and simpering--she had seen them actually simpering--just because in walked a bit of bird-brained beauty. —  The Enchanted April
  • Little Rose was glowing and simpering, and the two older ladies were giving each other significant glances. —  The Vehement Flame
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