Simperingly
adv
adv ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Adverb
- 1 In a simpering way.
"In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]"
Adverb
- 1 with a lack of courage and determination wordnet
Example
More examples"In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]"
Etymology
From simpering + -ly.
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