simper
Example Sentences
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He tweeted: "*blush* *giggle* *simper* - thank you very much, nice Golden Rose people."
From BBC • Nov. 19, 2015
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
Even party ballet Elite Syncopations, MacMillan's 1974 setting of Scott Joplin rags, has an acidic aftertaste: the girls simper and the men strut with an unnerving edge of desperation.
From The Guardian • Mar. 24, 2010
He couldn’t simper around these fools and still be what he was becoming for Naomi.
From "Out of Darkness" by Ashley Hope Pérez
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
