Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In a simpering manner; affectedly.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adverb In a simpering manner.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adverb In a
simpering way.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with a lack of courage and determination
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Examples
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It's exactly the sort of simperingly earnest, warbly bum-sneeze we have come to know and ignore over the last 10 years.
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I would, however, be simperingly grateful if any Aston Martin executive happens to read this and feels like offering me a free sample of their wares, in which unlikely event I can guarantee my endorsement would be unreserved and heartfelt to a frankly pathetic extent …
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She sensed morbidly that she was acquiring the propitiatory, simperingly pathetic air of the disabled.
She Closed Her Eyes 2010
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In part it was the “anecdotic side” to Johnson that made his work appealing: Weekley reported, for instance, that “[a] lady, who simperingly congratulated him on his omission of all indecent words from the Dictionary, was met with the truly Johnsonian retort: ‘So you have been looking for them, Madam?’”
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In part it was the “anecdotic side” to Johnson that made his work appealing: Weekley reported, for instance, that “[a] lady, who simperingly congratulated him on his omission of all indecent words from the Dictionary, was met with the truly Johnsonian retort: ‘So you have been looking for them, Madam?’”
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The vocabulary used to describe a man like himself, once full of solemn dignity, has been reduced to the simperingly ironic.
In a Strange City Lippman, Laura, 1959- 2001
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A lady, who simperingly congratulated him on his omission of all indecent words from the Dictionary, was met with the truly Johnsonian retort: 'So you have been looking for them, Madam?'
On Dictionaries 1969
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She thanked him simperingly and tucked it in her knapsack.
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town Cory Doctorow
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"I'm called Hui Hsiang, (orchid fragrance)," that waiting-maid rejoined simperingly.
Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao
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He wheeled round and stared dumbly at the weak faced one, who looked at a complete loss, but managed to stammer simperingly that it was a part of the United States.
The Enormous Room 1928
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