simper
verb (used without object)
to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
have simpered
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present perfectof simper.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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A former generation would have simpered, but this young person hasn't a simper in her.
From Set in Silver by A. M. (Alice Muriel) Williamson
She pointed over my head, with a purse mouth, as if she would not have simpered, could she have helped it.
From Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8 by Samuel Richardson
How the great cable must have simpered with the foolishness of it.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
