simper
Example Sentences
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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
He tweeted: "*blush* *giggle* *simper* - thank you very much, nice Golden Rose people."
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2015
Thirty years later, I look at my teenage daughters' girlfriends: they don't simper.
From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2013
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 couldn’t simper around these fools and still be what he was becoming for Naomi.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
