Sekirov Dictionary

simpering

adjective 1
noun 1
forms 3

adjective1

•
Affected, smug, and supercilious.
- Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug! — 1892

noun1

•
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[…] — 1740

forms

simperings · more simpering · most simpering

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