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simper

/sim-per/US // ˈsɪm pər //UK // (ˈsɪmpə) //

傻子,愚蠢的,傻傻分不清楚,愚蠢的人

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Definitions

v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to smile in a silly, self-conscious way.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to say with a simper.
n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a silly, self-conscious smile.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • "My, they must be in a hurry to see us," said Grace, with a simper that sent the girls off into gales of laughter.

  • Of course her smile was a make-believe, nothing more nor less than a simper.

  • How fain she would have drawn on Sophocles To come aboard, and how she simper'd it—Ped.

  • Could design lodge in that empty-looking head with its crisp curls, button nose, and diminishing simper?

  • Mammy Susan held that: "Seasonin' is the maindest thing in cookin', that an' 'lowin' victuals to simper and not bile too hard."