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synonyms for simpering

  • fastidious
  • narrow-minded
  • prissy
  • puritanical
  • squeamish
  • uptight
  • Victorian
  • affected
  • artificial
  • austere
  • bigoted
  • conventional
  • demure
  • finicky
  • genteel
  • illiberal
  • mincing
  • narrow
  • offish
  • overexact
  • overmodest
  • overnice
  • precise
  • pretentious
  • priggish
  • prim
  • proper
  • rigid
  • rigorous
  • scrupulous
  • severe
  • square
  • starchy
  • stern
  • stiff
  • stilted
  • strait-laced
  • stuffy
On this page you'll find 405 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to simpering, such as: fastidious, narrow-minded, prissy, puritanical, squeamish, and uptight.

antonyms for simpering

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  • bold
  • brave
  • extroverted
  • outgoing
    • cold
    • cool
    • hard
    • mature
    • serious
    • uncaring
    • unfeeling
    • unromantic
    • hard-hearted
    • indifferent
    • pragmatic
    • unemotional
    • unsentimental
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              How to use simpering in a sentence

              Isnt it realer than painting pretty pictures—simpering, sugary women—the same old thing again and again?
              THE WOMAN GIVESOWEN JOHNSON
              There is nothing insipid or affected, nothing of that simpering affability that his successors brought into vogue.
              THE HISTORY OF MODERN PAINTING, VOLUME 1 (OF 4)RICHARD MUTHER
              An overdressed, overperfumed matron brushed down the steps, and gushingly pushed her simpering daughter at him.
              MOUNTAINCLEMENT WOOD
              It's too deliciously cosy to be spoiled by women simpering and rustling and men lounging and clattering in.
              THE BEAUTYMRS. WILSON WOODROW
              The Captain, addressing her in a simpering, loverlike voice, had importuned her to change her cabin.
              MY DANISH SWEETHEART, VOLUME 3 OF 3WILLIAM CLARK RUSSELL
              This was for some of them not easy at once to believe, for the dog's expression was one of simpering amiability.
              THE WRONG TWINHARRY LEON WILSON
              At the side of the altar was seated large and important the modern, simpering, black-gowned Anthony of Padua, nursing a boy-child.
              SEA AND SARDINIAD. H. LAWRENCE
              He led her to the picture gallery where his simpering or frowning ancestors looked down in painted disapproval.
              PTOMAINE STREETCAROLYN WELLS
              There is the smiling, simpering girl who comes forward gorgeously arrayed in light blue satin.
              LAZY THOUGHTS OF A LAZY GIRLJENNY WREN
              "Whatever you do, I beg, don't let those simpering Mason girls get ahead of you," suggested Grace.
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