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Simperingly

Simperingly \Sim"per*ing*ly\, adv. In a simpering manner.

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simperingly

adv. In a simpering way.

WordNet
simperingly

adv. with a lack of courage and determination; "simperingly, the accused begged for mercy" [syn: pusillanimously]

Usage examples of "simperingly".

Ida Ruth and Jill, like the spiteful stepsisters, were simperingly nice to her in person but talked about her behind her back every chance they could.

All dressed up in silk robes and wearing a skullcap, this simperingly polite laundryman had been the model for Dan Gregory's pictures of one of the most sinister characters in all of fiction, the Yellow Menace personified, the master criminal Fu Manchu!