simper

Example Sentences

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Yet Cruz is nothing to those voters but another simpering pledge who grits his teeth into a fake smile and says to Trump: Thank you, sir — may I have another?

From Washington Post

Trump makes a lot of noise, but at heart, the man is a simpering coward and incompetent to boot, as his business record and pandemic management shows.

From Salon

Collectively, they constitute a foil against the persistent myth that Muslim women are simpering sorts awaiting rescue.

From New York Times

Karla: Not to be a simpering semanticist, but if management is content to pay your colleague to convert surplus oxygen to CO2, then she can hardly be accused of stealing her own wages.

From Washington Post

They’ve packed the federal courts with the simpering incompetent children of the Republican conservative “revolution” and jammed two yes-men punks onto the Supreme Court in a pure exercise of rank political power.

From Salon