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Examples of simper
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Many of today's female singers simper about boys and clothes, says Gillian Orr.
From the independent.co.uk
There's the demure simper with which she greets me in a London members'club.
From the independent.co.uk
And where it does succeed, it is still playing catch-up, poor thing, they will simper.
From the independent.co.uk
The quiet kings of indie leave the stage with a bang, rather than a simper.
From the independent.co.uk
Pious celebrities often simper that they'd be willing to pay more in taxes for better government services.
From the ocregister.com
A smirk, like a leer or a simper, is a smile on the face of someone the speaker dislikes or disapproves of.
From the independent.co.uk
During a cable-television interview in the early 1980s, Gloria Steinem asked Gurley Brown about her tendency to simper.
From the economist.com
She does not beg or simper.
From the guardian.co.uk
And he knew it, which was why, when the student soon afterwards got a difficult answer right, Mr Paxman beamed a 2,000-watt ingratiating simper at him.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
- A silly self-conscious smile
- Smirk: smile affectedly or derisively
- Nicholas John Simper (born 3 November 1945, at Frogmore House Maternity Home, Norwood Green, Southall, Middlesex) is a bass guitarist, best known as a founding member of Deep Purple.
- To smile in a closed mouth or false manner.
