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He tweeted: "*blush* *giggle* *simper* - thank you very much, nice Golden Rose people."

From BBC ● Nov. 19, 2015

Maybe we shouldn't snigger at the deferential newsreel interviewers who would simper "is there anything you want to say, Minister?"

From The Guardian ● Jul. 20, 2013

Thirty years later, I look at my teenage daughters' girlfriends: they don't simper.

From The Guardian ● Jun. 29, 2013

Soon she and Vinny have established a playful rapport that causes Edgar to whimper and simper in jealousy.

From New York Times ● Oct. 28, 2011

He couldn’t simper around these fools and still be what he was becoming for Naomi.

From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez

“You’ve been crying. That touches me,” he simpers.

From The Guardian ● May 5, 2018

“They say I’m too young to love you,” she simpers on “Brooklyn Baby”.

From Time ● Jun. 17, 2014

"Hoyt was kind of shy about it, I think because of my fangs," she simpers.

From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2011

Ashley Moniz simpers and pouts satisfactorily as Velma’s camera-hogging offspring Amber.

From New York Times ● Jul. 16, 2011

He was sick of sitting here listening to Mr. Reardon bully his family with all these “hypotheticals,” all these simpers and smirks, cruel smiles and humorless laughs.

From "Found" by Margaret Peterson Haddix

He also simpered that he was “belied and stared at, as if I was a Rhinoceros,” escalating his bath of self-pity to exclamations that “I am in danger of being murdered without doors.”

From Slate ● Aug. 9, 2016

He just simpered and whined ineffectually, then fell under the sway of the Faith Militant’s leader – whom he should be opposing.

From The Guardian ● May 16, 2016

"At least this wee fella loves me," he simpered, nanoseconds before the cur sank its gnashers into the hand of the Souness-shunning sadsack.

From The Guardian ● Nov. 14, 2012

Nature in them is not idealized; she is at best played for pratfalls and at worst she is simpered over and over-sanitized.

From Time Magazine Archive

The women at the other tables simpered as I wove past, or so I imagined.

From "The Red Car to Hollywood" by Jennie Liu

Geoffrey’s simpering, emotional stuntedness may make it difficult for, say, the village’s priest or barkeep to see much of themselves in him.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2022

Davies was a gifted comedienne whose career was, if anything, hampered by her lover-producer’s insistence that she play only the simpering heroines of historical melodramas.

From Slate ● Nov. 12, 2020

The major chords, the marching rhythms, the simpering enforced jollity of it all.

From New York Times ● Dec. 26, 2019

Michael Urie puts the character of Bud Frump, the boss’s simpering nephew, in a joyful comic headlock, and John Michael Higgins is a suitably button-down J.B.

From Washington Post ● Jun. 8, 2018

‘Why, thank you, officer,’ Hannie says with a simpering smile that makes her look like a stranger.

From "Code Name Kingfisher" by Liz Kessler