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simper

simper (third-person singular simple present simpers, present participle simpering, simple past and past participle simpered)

1. (intransitive) To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner.
   • 1892, Mark Twain, The American Claimant, ch. 21:

     Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!

   • 1915, Harold MacGrath, The Voice In The Fog, ch. 24:

     How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!

simper (plural simpers)

1. A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, Book 2, Ch. 2, ""St. Edmundsbury"":

     Yes, another world it was, when these black ruins, white in their new mortar and fresh chiselling, first saw the sun as walls, long ago. Gauge not, with thy dilettante compasses, with that placid dilettante simper, the Heavens—Watchtower of our Fathers, the fallen Gods—Houses, the Golgotha of true Souls departed!

   • 1972, Eric Ambler, The Levanter (2009 edition), ISBN 9780755117635, p. 158:

     He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper.

Definizione dizionario simper

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Altri significati:

To smile in a frivolous manner

A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

(intransitive) To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, or smug manner.

frivolous smile