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形容詞

simpering (comparative more simpering, superlative most simpering)

1. Affected, smug, and supercilious.
   • 1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., OCLC 271444, page 214:

     Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!

   • 1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises:

     I know they are supposed to be amusing, and you should be tolerant, but I wanted to swing on one, any one, anything to shatter that superior, simpering composure.

   • 2012, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, →ISBN:

     I had high hopes when I moved to Spyglass, but simpering gossip on celebrity parties seems to be the closest I've gotten so far to Dad's vocation.

   • 2015, L. E. Modesitt, Jr, Madness in Solidar, →ISBN:

     That sounds almost simpering. I hate sounding simpering, and over a trifling increase of four coppers on a gold, I definitely do not wish to sound simpering.