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simpering

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verb

present participle of simper

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Recent Examples of simpering
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
  • 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
  • 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
  • There was no shouting or laughing.
    David Wolman, Smithsonian Magazine, 8 Jan. 2025
  • 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
  • This is histrionic and fun and has a nice ending with Michael Longfellow.
    EW.com, EW.com, 8 Dec. 2024
  • Beginning at the very apex of his falsetto, Hawkins tears through his ode to a life-changing love with an impassioned vocal performance that peppers his slight drawl with histrionic growls, effortlessly matching the rousing energy of the track’s instrumentation.
    Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
Adjective
  • The best way to tackle this show is to watch Season 1, then look up the big spoiler for Season 2, and then skip Season 2 and watch Season 3, where the program ultimately settles into its melodramatic, soapy groove.
    Erin Strecker, IndieWire, 3 Jan. 2025
  • An entire sense of history was contained within its melodramatic stories.
    Manuel Betancourt, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The kids were very cute & the crates were very broken.
    Tommy Tuberville, Newsweek, 8 Jan. 2025
  • In the coach’s fourth season, the Dolphins need to get less cute and tougher on the ground.
    Josh Kendall, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • 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
  • 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
  • The reports of Andrews’ 2024 demise were greatly exaggerated.
    Bill Reinhard, New York Daily News, 9 Jan. 2025
  • However, the study cautions that claims of enhanced accuracy through advanced computational methods are often exaggerated.
    Bruce Gil, Quartz, 9 Jan. 2025
Adjective
  • The genteel tranquility of his $10 million estate is shattered by the deafening scream of jet traffic with the regularity of commercial airline schedules.
    Miami Herald Archives, Miami Herald, 8 Jan. 2025
  • After a trio of controversy-courting biographies, Russian auteur Kirill Serebrennikov will next tackle a more genteel original drama about photography shot and set in France.
    Ben Croll, Variety, 5 Dec. 2024

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“Simpering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simpering. Accessed 20 Jan. 2025.

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