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simpering

adj

Definitions

  1. Affected, smug, and supercilious.

    • Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!
    • I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure.
    • I had high hopes when I moved to Spyglass, but simpering gossip on celebrity parties seems to be the closest I've gotten so far to Dad's vocation.

  2. present participle and gerund of simper

  3. The act of one who simpers.

    • Well, but Polly attended, as I said; and there were strange simperings, and bowing, and courtesying, between them; the honest gentleman seeming not to know how to let his mistress wait upon him[…]

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA