simper

Example Sentences

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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.

From Washington Post

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?

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

Want to see a bunch of ostensible teens dressed in lingerie simpering their way through “All That Jazz” or “Maybe This Time”? Wilkommen.

From New York Times