- present participle of simper.
simpering
Example Sentences
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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
If the real-life Lewinsky is okay being portrayed as a simpering mess as she is here — and who wasn’t at age 22? — then all power to her.
From Washington Post • Sep. 1, 2021
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
There were no simpering sycophants in the GHW Bush White House.
From New York Times • Dec. 3, 2018
The Sea of Flames could have been in the Paris Museum all along—that simpering mineralogist and the assistant director laughing as he slunk away, duped, fooled, inveigled.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
