Simpering

adj, noun, verb

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    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[…]"

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of simper form-of, gerund, participle, present
Adjective
  1. 1
    Affected, smug, and supercilious.

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

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artificialeleganteuphemisticeuphuisticexquisiteformalistic

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

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