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Recent Examples of simpering
Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
The Crown has become too simpering, and has suffered for that reverence.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
Adjective
Whether this is also the outcome for Hozier’s simpering reprobate is up for the listener to decide.
—Tom Zoellner, SPIN, 29 May 2024
The Crown has become too simpering, and has suffered for that reverence.
—Louis Staples, Rolling Stone, 18 Nov. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for simpering
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The rental agent listened to my concerns and matched me with the Harley Heritage Softail, a thinking man’s bagger with leather panniers, weighing in at a mincing and elegant 700 pounds.New York Times, New York Times, 27 Oct. 2021
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Pioneer Natural Resources founder and CEO Scott Sheffield isn’t mincing words about a two-pronged threat pressuring independent oil and gas producers.Dallas News, Dallas News, 27 Mar. 2020
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Zuckerberg, the world's second-richest person, shared Chan's laughing reaction to the song on his Instagram story.Gabriella Rudy, NBC News, 14 Nov. 2024
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Another cute photo shows Legend laughing while his daughter Luna wraps her arms around her dad.Emma Aerin Becker, People.com, 21 Oct. 2024
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Beginning at the very apex of his falsetto, Hawkins tears through his ode to a life-changing love with an impassioned vocal performance that peppers his slight drawl with histrionic growls, effortlessly matching the rousing energy of the track’s instrumentation.Michael Saponara, Billboard, 3 Sep. 2019
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Based on Muriel Spark’s indelible novel, the film was a perfect vehicle for Smith’s histrionic charm and seductive wizardry.Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 27 Sep. 2024
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But Walden isn’t a play made up of claws-out shouting and shattering, melodramatic reveals.Sara Holdren, Vulture, 7 Nov. 2024
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But where Grapes is relentlessly symphonic and often melodramatic, Unknown—which was finally edited and released 20 years ago—is intimate and restrained, focusing acutely on the slow-motion erosion of the agrarian American dream in a pattern of exploitation that the Dust Bowl only intensified.Mark Athitakis, The Atlantic, 10 Oct. 2024
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The smallest monkey in the world, these cute critters weigh in at just over 4 ounces.Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 6 Nov. 2024
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This floor-through townhouse co-op has a lot of cute details, like the working brick fireplace and the skylights in the kitchen and bathroom.Clio Chang, Curbed, 5 Nov. 2024
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The truth is, many of those cutesy have-to-have garden gifts look pretty at the store but serve little purpose in the real world.Jeanette Marantos, Los Angeles Times, 3 Nov. 2024
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Besides merch, can beauty products such as Rhode’s cutesy blush become a collector’s item like trainers?Avani Thakkar, refinery29.com, 28 Oct. 2024
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Like any good network soap, Grey’s loves to torture us with exaggerated teaser clips.Laura Bradley, Vulture, 15 Nov. 2024
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Because of the same exaggerated respect for states, each elects two of the 100 senators.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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Judge Reinhold, as an overly genteel young detective whom Foley brings into the adult world, and John Ashton, as Reinhold’s surly, stubby older partner, carry a burden as big as Murphy’s through the second half of the picture.David Denby, Vulture, 3 July 2024
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The rude new businessman—acting a lot like the characters who strutted around the ring, garnering the rabid love of the crowd—upset a genteel arrangement and won big.Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 11 Oct. 2024
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“Simpering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/simpering. Accessed 23 Nov. 2024.
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