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Recent Examples of simpering
Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
The Crown has become too simpering, and has suffered for that reverence.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
Adjective
Whether this is also the outcome for Hozier’s simpering reprobate is up for the listener to decide.
—Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
The Crown has become too simpering, and has suffered for that reverence.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simpering
Adjective
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With their next 22 games against postseason contenders, there was no mincing words about the importance of the next few series.—
Katie Woo,
The Athletic,
19 Aug. 2024
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The rental agent listened to my concerns and matched me with the Harley Heritage Softail, a thinking man’s bagger with leather panniers, weighing in at a mincing and elegant 700 pounds.—
New York Times,
New York Times,
27 Oct. 2021
Verb
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There was no shouting or laughing.—
David Wolman,
Smithsonian Magazine,
8 Jan. 2025
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In a somewhat dystopian but highly sentimental video shown at the presentation, a woman drives along a desolate road in search of a sunrise, describing her favorite colors and laughing along with the Saloon concept.—
Abigail Bassett,
Ars Technica,
8 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Even though there's no question that anthropogenic climate change has played a major role in the current run-up of the global mean sea level, some of the most histrionic predictions about pending inundations have mercifully remained just that.—
Bruce Dorminey,
Forbes,
23 Jan. 2025
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This may sound like the setup for a histrionic sci-fi soap opera.—
Judy Berman,
TIME,
17 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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There’s a lot of melodramatic potential in this material — particularly one late-breaking narrative development that has felled many talented artists in the past.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
25 Jan. 2025
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But melodramatic fantasies about the end can also serve as a kind of lurid distraction from some of the more persistent problems at hand.—
Jennifer Szalai,
New York Times,
22 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Guests have free access to the hotel’s cute alpine style spa with sauna, steam room and outdoor hot tub.—
Joanne Shurvell,
Forbes,
20 Jan. 2025
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The pair were photographed ice skating during a cute nighttime outing.—
Brenton Blanchet,
People.com,
19 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Feathers tends to wear cutesy disguises, but comes across as a surprisingly sinister creature who is always observing.—
Dani Di Placido,
Forbes,
9 Jan. 2025
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Advertisement More gift guides Lifestyle 18 tiny stocking stuffers that have big California energy Nov. 3, 2024 15 gifts for L.A. gardeners and plant parents of all levels Many cutesy, ‘have-to-have’ garden gifts serve little real purpose.—
Jaclyn Cosgrove,
Los Angeles Times,
3 Nov. 2024
Adjective
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As in pro wrestling, each gesture needs to be the biggest, most exaggerated version of itself.—
James Poniewozik,
New York Times,
21 Jan. 2025
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Agave price volatility has been a recurring feature of the agave/Tequila market; however, the breadth of price changes is exaggerated.—
Joseph V Micallef,
Forbes,
16 Jan. 2025
Adjective
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Faulkner's chronicle of the dissolution of a genteel Southern family has already been adapted into two films, as has Hemingway's WWI romance.—
Ryan Coleman,
EW.com,
2 Jan. 2025
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Still, the man with the huge smile and genteel Georgia drawl handily won the Electoral College by 297-240 but received only 50.1% of the popular vote to Ford’s 48%.—
Marty Steinberg,
CNBC,
29 Dec. 2024
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“Simpering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simpering. Accessed 3 Feb. 2025.
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