simperingly, the accused begged for mercy. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
She thanked him simperingly and tucked it in her knapsack. From Wordnik.com. [Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town] Reference
"I'm called Hui Hsiang, (orchid fragrance)," that waiting-maid rejoined simperingly. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng, Book I Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books] Reference
I would, however, be simperingly grateful if any Aston Martin executive happens to read this and feels like offering me a free sample of their wares, in which unlikely event I can guarantee my endorsement would be unreserved and heartfelt to a frankly pathetic extent …. From Wordnik.com. [Brian Ruckley · On the Placing of Product] Reference
Mrs. Maloney simperingly admitted her baleful influence. From Wordnik.com. [The Iron Woman] Reference
Heath, and long-necked, ringleted ladies looked wistfully or simperingly at you. From Wordnik.com. [A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions] Reference
"A course se does," Mumpsy was simperingly assured in the thick of his silky flanks. From Wordnik.com. [Ordeal of Richard Feverel — Complete] Reference
He wheeled round and stared dumbly at the weak faced one, who looked at a complete loss, but managed to stammer simperingly that it was a part of the United States. From Wordnik.com. [The Enormous Room] Reference
"Is that chance swimmer superhuman or inhuman or ultra-human because she is not consciously, and simperingly, preoccupied with the fact that there happens to be a man in her vicinity?". From Wordnik.com. [The Firing Line] Reference
The Gaga of world fame, however, with her heavy wigs and giant sunglasses (rudely worn during interviews) looks either simperingly doll-like or ghoulish, without a trace of spontaneity. From Wordnik.com. [One Utah] Reference
Despite the most craven United Nations official in the history of TV, a simperingly opportunistic State Department attache and annoying angelic choir music that has no business anywhere near a "24" soundtrack, "24: Redemption" is a serviceably exciting prelude for the new season of a series that one hopes will get back on the right track come January. From Wordnik.com. [Top Stories - Google News] Reference
He took no pleasure in the long drawing-room, or the billiard-room and library, or the pleasant galleries, in which there were all manner of easy corners, with abutting bay-windows, damask-cushioned oaken benches, china vases as high as tables, all enlivened by the alternately sternly masculine and simperingly feminine faces of those ancestors whose painted representations the banker had bought in Wardour-street. From Wordnik.com. [Aurora Floyd. A Novel] Reference
“I’m called Hui Hsiang, (orchid fragrance),” that waiting-maid rejoined simperingly. From Wordnik.com. [Hung Lou Meng] Reference
It’s reasonably visually accomplished and looks quite good when no one in it is moving or talking, and the whole thing is set to one of those simperingly inoffensive epic fantasy scores that we’ve come to expect in post-Lord of the Rings Hollywood. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2008-01-01] Reference
However "-- here she rested a plump forefinger simperingly on the first of her two chins," your fate rests with Mabel, you know. ". From Wordnik.com. [Quaint Courtships] Reference
They looked simperingly at Ralph. From Wordnik.com. [The Hoosier Schoolmaster A Story of Backwoods Life in Indiana] Reference
He smiled simperingly, and glanced at his watch. From Wordnik.com. [Innocent : her fancy and his fact] Reference
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