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Should Fifa’s simperingly insincere football family be here at all?

From The Guardian • Jun. 13, 2018

Philippe Huis-man's text is thorough but simperingly eager to simonize Lautrec's reputation as the depraved genius of fin-de-siecle Montmartre.

From Time Magazine Archive

Regrettably, in his chapter on Fischer he has chosen to speak simperingly about how "great... worthy ... true to his principles... misunderstood" Fischer is.

From Time Magazine Archive

He smiled simperingly, and glanced at his watch.

From Innocent : her fancy and his fact by Corelli, Marie

"I confess, if I have a weakness, it is for lords," said Jekyl, simperingly.

From The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life by Lever, Charles James