simpering

adj

1. Affected, smug, and supercilious.

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

   “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.”

   “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.”

   “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.”

verb

1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present)present participle and gerund of simper

noun

1. The act of one who simpers.

   “Well, but Polly attended, as I said; and there were strange simperings, and bowing, and courtesying, between them; the honest gentleman seeming not to know how to let his mistress wait upon him[…]”