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单词 simpering
释义

simpering

adjective

sim·​per·​ing ˈsim-p(ə-)riŋ How to pronounce simpering (audio)
: marked by insipidity or by affected or ingratiating timidity
simpering behavior
a simpering smile/tone
During job interviews, I always felt like a simpering idiot. Nancy Scott Hanway
… spoofy moments featuring a simpering newswoman … Pauline Kael
… the indignities of office life, from boorish bosses to simpering middle managers to byzantine bureaucracies. Charles Bramesco
simperingly adverb
What a relief to meet a heroine who was not so simperingly, crushingly perfect and pretty as most of the approved Pollyannas we encountered in conventional fiction! Michele Landsberg

Word History

First Known Use

1553, in the meaning defined above

simpering 1 of 2

adjective

as in cutesy

Synonyms & Similar Words

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  • cutesy
  • mincing
  • histrionic
  • melodramatic
  • cute
  • goody-goody
  • genteel
  • exaggerated
  • theatrical
  • hypocritical
  • insincere
  • unctuous
  • overdone
  • overacted
  • conventional
  • wooden
  • hollow
  • impersonal
  • stylized
  • theatric
  • inflexible
  • overrefined
  • rigid
  • facile
  • mealy
  • formal
  • two-faced
  • mealymouthed
  • deliberate
  • artful
  • conscious
  • hokey
  • pat
  • cultivated
  • empty
  • unrealistic
  • stiff
  • calculated
  • pseudo
  • canned
  • mechanical
  • automatic
  • feigned
  • premeditated
  • studied
  • contrived
  • double-dealing
  • phony
  • unreal
  • unnatural
  • manufactured
  • unauthentic
  • plastic
  • mock
  • factitious
  • spurious
  • pretended
  • artificial
  • labored
  • assumed
  • strained
  • left-handed
  • concocted
  • forced
  • sham
  • bogus
  • affected
  • simulated
  • fake
  • fabricated
  • phoney
  • false
  • put-on

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • artless
  • unaffected
  • genuine
  • spontaneous
  • real
  • natural
  • unfeigned
  • bona fide
  • right
  • realistic
  • true
  • sincere
  • authentic
  • unforced
  • honest
  • easy
  • uncontrived
  • smooth
  • ingenuous
  • unconscious
  • impulsive
  • unpretending
  • instinctive
  • effortless
  • impromptu
  • extemporaneous
  • unstudied
  • unrehearsed
  • unprompted
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simpering

2 of 2

verb

present participle of simper
as in grinning

Synonyms & Similar Words

  • grinning
  • sneering
  • laughing
  • smiling
  • smirking
  • beaming

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • grimacing
  • scowling
  • glowering
  • frowning
  • glaring
  • pouting
  • lowering
  • louring
  • glooming
  • sulking
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