Meaning of Simper | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A surname.
2. A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.

Equivalents

Examples

“Yes, another world it was, when these black ruins, white in their new mortar and fresh chiselling, first saw the sun as walls, long ago. Gauge not, with thy dilettante compasses, with that placid dilettante simper, the Heaven's—Watchtower of our Fathers, the fallen God's—Houses, the Golgotha of true Souls departed!”

“He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper.”

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