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simper

verb as in smile coyly

Weak match

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"My, they must be in a hurry to see us," said Grace, with a simper that sent the girls off into gales of laughter.

Of course her smile was a make-believe, nothing more nor less than a simper.

How fain she would have drawn on Sophocles To come aboard, and how she simper'd it—Ped.

Could design lodge in that empty-looking head with its crisp curls, button nose, and diminishing simper?

Mammy Susan held that: "Seasonin' is the maindest thing in cookin', that an' 'lowin' victuals to simper and not bile too hard."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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