Simpering

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Simper

(-) a. &. n. from Simper, v.

编辑:塔比瑟

• She was not fascinated, only puzzled, by his grinning, his simpering, his scented cambric handkerchief, and his high-heeled lacquered boots. 威廉·梅克比斯·萨克雷. 名利场.
• Come, said another, let me untie your ugly mask; we are all so tired of looking at the nasty simpering expression of it. 哈里特·威尔逊. 哈里特·威尔逊回忆录.
• There now, said Miss Steele, affectedly simpering, everybody laughs at me so about the Doctor, and I cannot think why. 简·奥斯汀. 理智与情感.
• Agnes, whom I should have liked to take myself, was given to a simpering fellow with weak legs. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 大卫·科波菲尔.
• Lydgate's conceit was of the arrogant sort, never simpering, never impertinent, but massive in its claims and benevolently contemptuous. 乔治·艾略特. 米德尔马契.

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