simper
Example Sentences
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“I just could not simper, flutter my eyelids or gaze adoringly into the leading man’s eyes … my performance was as inadequate as I feared it would be.”
From The Guardian • Oct. 14, 2016
He tweeted: "*blush* *giggle* *simper* - thank you very much, nice Golden Rose people."
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2015
Soon she and Vinny have established a playful rapport that causes Edgar to whimper and simper in jealousy.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2011
Even party ballet Elite Syncopations, MacMillan's 1974 setting of Scott Joplin rags, has an acidic aftertaste: the girls simper and the men strut with an unnerving edge of desperation.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010
He couldn’t simper around these fools and still be what he was becoming for Naomi.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
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