Simpering
['simpɝriŋ]
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Simper
(-) a. &. n. from Simper, v.
Typist: Tabitha
Examples
- She was not fascinated, only puzzled, by his grinning, his simpering, his scented cambric handkerchief, and his high-heeled lacquered boots. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Come, said another, let me untie your ugly mask; we are all so tired of looking at the nasty simpering expression of it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- There now, said Miss Steele, affectedly simpering, everybody laughs at me so about the Doctor, and I cannot think why. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
- Agnes, whom I should have liked to take myself, was given to a simpering fellow with weak legs. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
Typist: Tabitha