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
"Hoyt was kind of shy about it, I think because of my fangs," she simpers.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2011
Ashley Moniz simpers and pouts satisfactorily as Velma’s camera-hogging offspring Amber.
From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 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
A man ran over and simpered, "Elena Georgievna, come this way."
From Time Magazine Archive
They simpered in happy, almost innocent triumph when they were applauded.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
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
Michael Urie puts the character of Bud Frump, the boss’s simpering nephew, in a joyful comic headlock, and John Michael Higgins is a suitably button-down J.B.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018
Matt Ingebretson and Jake Weisman’s boundlessly cynical new series marks a new extreme of pure, unleaded contempt for the indignities of office life, from boorish bosses to simpering middle managers to byzantine bureaucracies.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 23, 2018
She gave him a simpering smile and took a bite of ham.
From "Throne of Glass" by Sarah J. Maas
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