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词汇 simper
释义 simper
verb[ I ]
uk /ˈsɪm.pər/ us /ˈsɪm.pɚ/
to smile in a silly or annoying way: 傻笑,痴笑
She gave her teacher a simpering smile.她冲着自己的老师傻笑。
Compare
smirkverbdisapproving
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Laughing and smiling
a gleam in your eyeidiom
amused
be all smilesidiom
be in convulsionsidiom
be rolling in the aislesidiom
be wreathed in smilesidiom
burst
crease
dissolve
gale
giggle
giggler
gigglingly
giggly
not know whether to laugh or cryidiom
piss yourself (laughing)idiom
quake
rictus
say cheeseidiom
smile
simper
noun[ C ]
uk /ˈsɪm.pər/ us /ˈsɪm.pɚ/
a silly or annoying smile:
My face twists into some combination of a simper and a grimace.
She was standing by me with an expression on her face that I can only describe as a simper.
Compare
smirknoundisapproving
The insult in his voice was hard to miss, and her simper faded.
His simper turned into a smirk.
Everything about her, including her simper and her babyish voice made me cringe every time she was onscreen.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Laughing and smiling
a gleam in your eyeidiom
amused
be all smilesidiom
be in convulsionsidiom
be rolling in the aislesidiom
be wreathed in smilesidiom
burst
crease
dissolve
gale
giggle
giggler
gigglingly
giggly
not know whether to laugh or cryidiom
piss yourself (laughing)idiom
quake
rictus
say cheeseidiom
smile

Examples of simper


simper
It seems that, too often, in high places these peculiarities or abnormalities, to call them such, are shrugged off or laughed off with a simper.
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Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
He simpered from time to time when he recited the various accusations of extreme left-wingery that had been made against him.
From the
Hansard archive

Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0
Ankitha has nothing much to do, except simper and look good.
From
Wikipedia

This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.
These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.
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