simperingly

• “It's exactly the sort of simperingly earnest, warbly bum-sneeze we have come to know and ignore over the last 10 years.”

  The Guardian: This week's new singles

• “I would, however, be simperingly grateful if any Aston Martin executive happens to read this and feels like offering me a free sample of their wares, in which unlikely event I can guarantee my endorsement would be unreserved and heartfelt to a frankly pathetic extent …”

  Brian Ruckley · On the Placing of Product

• “She sensed morbidly that she was acquiring the propitiatory, simperingly pathetic air of the disabled.”

  Fictionaut: She Closed Her Eyes

• “In part it was the “anecdotic side” to Johnson that made his work appealing: Weekley reported, for instance, that “[a] lady, who simperingly congratulated him on his omission of all indecent words from the Dictionary, was met with the truly Johnsonian retort: ‘So you have been looking for them, Madam?’””

  A Taxonomy of Knowledge

• “The vocabulary used to describe a man like himself, once full of solemn dignity, has been reduced to the simperingly ironic.”

  In a Strange City

• “A lady, who simperingly congratulated him on his omission of all indecent words from the Dictionary, was met with the truly Johnsonian retort: 'So you have been looking for them, Madam?”

  On Dictionaries

• “She thanked him simperingly and tucked it in her knapsack.”

  Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town

• “I'm called Hui Hsiang, (orchid fragrance)," that waiting-maid rejoined simperingly.”

  Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books

• “He wheeled round and stared dumbly at the weak faced one, who looked at a complete loss, but managed to stammer simperingly that it was a part of the United States.”

  The Enormous Room

• “Heath, and long-necked, ringleted ladies looked wistfully or simperingly at you.”

  A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions

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