simpering
Adjective
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Adjective
simpering
- Smug, affected, and supercilious.
- present participle of simper#English|simper
simpering (plural simperings)
- The act of one who simpers.
- Well, but Polly attended, as I said; and there were strange simperings, and bowing, and courtesying, between them; the honest gentleman seeming not to know how to let his mistress wait upon him […]
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