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Recent Examples of simper
Noun
Sandoval, in comparison, sneers and simpers to no success whatsoever; his bad behavior, on and off The Traitors, yields nothing.—Fran Hoepfner, Vulture, 20 Feb. 2025 Today’s announcement marks the emergence of a new GE, a high-tech industrial GE — simper, stronger, a more focused company at the core.—Jon Chesto, BostonGlobe.com, 26 June 2018 Al Capone lived as a schoolyard bully, died in a simper with a brain et by syphilis, and lives on through eternity as a cigarillo mascot and gimme film role for dark-haired white actors who want a chance to really chew some scenery.—Paul Dailing, Chicago Reader, 21 Dec. 2017
Verb
As divorce rates rose in the 1970s and 1980s, set off by the same shifting social mores that fueled Women’s Lib, Hollywood reacted in kind, trading simpering visions of American domesticity for lively portraits of familial distress.—Marley Marius, Vogue, 30 Apr. 2025 Franco is simpering when he wasn’t distracted, and while Hathaway brings a bit of spirit, most of her lines are only half-funny.—Bill Wyman, Vulture, 28 Feb. 2025 There was Bhanu, the simpering do-nothing who was eventually put out of his misery but shouldn’t have been cast in the first place.—Brian Moylan, Vulture, 23 May 2024 And Grant has made something of a second career out of playing charmingly louche rogues of late, smiling and simpering to perfection as the greedy backstabbing Forge.—Jennifer Ouellette, Ars Technica, 31 Mar. 2023 Didn’t want to be a part of that simpering sorority, a keeper of that shameful secret (for so it was considered at the time), that failure.—Alice McDermott, Harper's Magazine, 11 Sep. 2023 But Parker always meant to play the quietly cunning Southern belle as anything but simpering, describing the elder DuBois sister as a mental poker player.—Helena Andrews-Dyer, Washington Post, 23 June 2023 Seated at a ceremonial desk in an airplane hangar, doling out portions of his kingdom to simpering Goneril (Gilmore) and Regan (Lane), this Lear wears the infuriating smirk of a glutton for praise.—Peter Marks, Washington Post, 3 Mar. 2023 Judging by his simpering public appearances with Putin -- including one where Trump dissed his own US intelligence agencies -- these calls would be fascinating.—Stephen Collinson, CNN, 16 Oct. 2019
Her long, dark hair was messily waved, hanging past her shoulders like a shawl, while her eyebrows were shaved extremely thin, leaving little room for any expression other than a sly smile.
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Kaleigh Werner,
Footwear News,
1 July 2025
In the second photo, the couple smile in their wedding attire while sitting in the back of a white getaway car.
Something beyond the Birmingham, Alabama native's experience in Los Angeles writing for the likes of Akon and Jennifer Lopez informs his toothy grin when asked what unifies pop and R&B to country's mainstream moment.
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Marcus K. Dowling,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
With a big grin on her face, Plum, 30, then tossed the fan a new L.A. Sparks t-shirt.
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Grace Jordan-Weinstein,
People.com,
30 June 2025
The Plague is exquisitely cast, from the Nickelodeon star smirk of ringleader Jake (Kayo Martin) to his cohen target Eli (Kenny Rasmussen), a genuine oddball.
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Alison Willmore,
Vulture,
27 May 2025
But watching a group of roughnecks on a rig in grubby overalls moving huge, long steel pipes, Dugan's smile begins to fade to a smirk.
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