simpering

At their best they come off as brilliant, and at worst, overly simpering and voyeuristic.

No “simpering chit” of a girl, Rebecca is fierce and steely, a woman whose own father cannot quite figure her out.

Isnt it realer than painting pretty pictures—simpering, sugary women—the same old thing again and again?

There is nothing insipid or affected, nothing of that simpering affability that his successors brought into vogue.

An overdressed, overperfumed matron brushed down the steps, and gushingly pushed her simpering daughter at him.

It's too deliciously cosy to be spoiled by women simpering and rustling and men lounging and clattering in.

The Captain, addressing her in a simpering, loverlike voice, had importuned her to change her cabin.