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simper
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner. 2 (context obsolete English) To glimmer; to twinkle.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Simper \Sim"per\, n. A constrained, self-conscious smile; an affected, silly smile; a smirk. The conscious simper, and the jealous leer. --Pope.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1560s, "to smile in an affected and silly way," perhaps from a Scandinavian source (such as dialectal Danish semper "affected, coy, prudish") or Middle Dutch zimperlijk "affected, coy, prim," of unknown origin. Related: Simpered ; simpering . As a noun, ...
Usage examples of simper.
For the picture, dashingly painted in oils, represented a comfortably plump young woman who, from her rather weak-minded simper and the fact that she wore absolutely nothing except a small dove on her left shoulder, was plainly intended to be the goddess Venus.
He could lounge at his ease and remain above the unwashed fetor of the masses for whom these plays, with their morally correct attitudes and their simpering points of argument, were intended.
It is not pietistic simpering that will feed the spirit of Christendom, but a steady church-patronage of the most skilful and original motion picture artists.
For the Bare Accost, two wall-eyes in a face forced: for the Better Regard, a face favourably simpering, with a fan waving: for the Solemn Address, two lips wagging, and never a wise word: for the Perfect Close, a wring by the hand, with a banquet in a corner.
The drugged wine had already been delivered to Outher and his friends with a suitably simpering note.
I cast my eyes aloft, put on a simpering devout expression and, with my free hand, sketched a cross on my forehead.
Perion shrugged, spreading his palms apologetically, simpering at being the center of attention.
How could he remain angry at a girl who spoke so bluntly, who played no simpering games with him?
He heard no sound as he mounted the steps and stood in a reception line composed of himself, his mother, two royal cousins and the Senior Steward, all grave courtesy without, all intense embarrassment within as the noblewomen ofSaxe-Baden passed before him, simpering and smirking.
I will endure being simpering little Charina a bit longer, and continue casting my beguilements and love-spells on the boy.
Not a simpering, foolish bone in her body, unlike most of the young women foisted upon him these days.
Jordan threaded his way through the crowd toward Ian, casting a warning look at the one bold matron who approached him with a simpering daughter in tow.
Jordan had never thought to see the day when Ian would be dancing attendance on the simpering girls at marriage marts.
Was it a sweet, simpering thing he cajoled to keep him warm in the north?
I sit in calm exile, always wanting but never touching, and you let that simpering dandy whom you hardly know console your body with his nearness.