simper

Example Sentences

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Asturias fills the novel with beggars, the idle rich, simpering aristocrats and political sycophants.

From Washington Post

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

If the real-life Lewinsky is okay being portrayed as a simpering mess as she is here — and who wasn’t at age 22? — then all power to her.

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He has been a quailing, simpering paragon of mediocrity.

From Washington Post

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?

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