simper
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Like all the best confidence tricksters, Ripley reads people, each nervous twitch, each self-regarding simper, using every moment of weakness for his own gain.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 28, 2018
“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
He had small, watery eyes, a pointed nose, and wore an unpleasant simper.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
“You’ve been crying. That touches me,” he simpers.
From The Guardian ● May 5, 2018
“They say I’m too young to love you,” she simpers on “Brooklyn Baby”.
From Time ● Jun. 17, 2014
A British boy band, the Wanted, simpers through “Have Some Fun,” while Usher sounds downright miserable that “The Party Ain’t Over.”
From New York Times ● Nov. 19, 2012
"Hoyt was kind of shy about it, I think because of my fangs," she simpers.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2011
He was sick of sitting here listening to Mr. Reardon bully his family with all these “hypotheticals,” all these simpers and smirks, cruel smiles and humorless laughs.
From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
He also simpered that he was “belied and stared at, as if I was a Rhinoceros,” escalating his bath of self-pity to exclamations that “I am in danger of being murdered without doors.”
From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2016
He just simpered and whined ineffectually, then fell under the sway of the Faith Militant’s leader – whom he should be opposing.
From The Guardian ● May 16, 2016
"At least this wee fella loves me," he simpered, nanoseconds before the cur sank its gnashers into the hand of the Souness-shunning sadsack.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2012
Forthwith, from many a cover, svelte females simpered; deep-browed males smirked.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now she simpered along and picked her way to the privy, prissy.
From "The Teacher’s Funeral" by Richard Peck
Asturias fills the novel with beggars, the idle rich, simpering aristocrats and political sycophants.
From Washington Post ● Jul. 14, 2022
Geoffrey’s simpering, emotional stuntedness may make it difficult for, say, the village’s priest or barkeep to see much of themselves in him.
From The Verge ● May 9, 2022
Davies was a gifted comedienne whose career was, if anything, hampered by her lover-producer’s insistence that she play only the simpering heroines of historical melodramas.
From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2020
But while characters like David Copperfield’s simpering first wife, Dora, may fulfil this stereotype, there are also radical departures.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 23, 2020
Cain knew who she was; all of her simpering and pretending and holding back had been for nothing.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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