Synonyms of simper

simper 1 of 2

noun

as in smile

Related Words

• smile
• grin
• smirk
• crow
• titter
• chortle
• snigger
• whoop
• snicker
• chuckle
• guffaw
• giggle
• laughter
• cackle
• belly laugh
• laugh
• boff
• cachinnation
• hee-haw
• horselaugh
• twitter
• boffola

Dissimilar Words

• cry
• sob
• groan
• wail
• moan
• frown
• grimace
• face
• mouth
• scowl
• pout
• lower

simper

2 of 2

verb

as in to laugh

Related Words

• laugh
• grin
• smile
• sneer
• beam
• smirk

Dissimilar Words

• frown
• gloom
• lower
• grimace
• glare
• scowl
• sulk
• pout
• glower

Example Sentences

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

The character, played by Esteban Andres Cruz, has been reduced to a simpering stereotype who makes a pass at a cop and mimics a blow job. — Emily Nussbaum, New Yorker, 2 Apr. 2026

Corden’s Yvan, initially a simpering third wheel, becomes the play’s buoyant center as the evening progresses. — Christopher Barnard, Vogue, 17 Sep. 2025

Edelman brings goofy charm to Adam, a gullible and guileless father of four, while Key is consistently funny as the simpering Ken. — Kristen Baldwin, Entertainment Weekly, 3 Sep. 2025

Brewer, particularly, redefines the bullying aristocrat, played in the movie as a simpering sadist, but a more robust, complicated man onstage. — Michael Barnes, Austin American Statesman, 8 July 2025

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

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