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Definition of Simperers
1. simperer [n] - See also: simperer
Lexicographical Neighbors of Simperers
Literary usage of Simperers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... when upon a dozen Self-advertising simperers could bring her To this contaminate
end! The thing's absurd! Why was Olympus sleeping and where was The god ..."
2. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... made up a type that was too high for a generation of virtuous simperers.
From The Spectator. ..."
3. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"ASTRAEA Romantic ideas are for dreamy simperers. LYRA Amazons repudiate them.
ASTRAEA Laugh at me. Half my time I am laughing at myself. ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"Those self-engrossed simperers should yet be startled out of their follies by
the new fame rising up amongst them. Who was he, did they ask ? ..."
5. The Christian Examiner (1839)
"... neat, fashionable speech, that dropped from the mechanically wagging tongues
of such simperers. They went to the busy thoroughfares of the world, ..."
6. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"Ninnies, simperers, and simpletons have vanished. The poor, suffering human frame
becomes a horrible musical instrument from which the artist extorts ..."
7. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1922)
"... when upon a dozen Self-advertising simperers could bring her To this contaminate
end! The thing's absurd! Why was Olympus sleeping and where was The god ..."
8. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"... made up a type that was too high for a generation of virtuous simperers.
From The Spectator. ..."
9. The Works of George Meredith by George Meredith (1910)
"ASTRAEA Romantic ideas are for dreamy simperers. LYRA Amazons repudiate them.
ASTRAEA Laugh at me. Half my time I am laughing at myself. ..."
10. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1862)
"Those self-engrossed simperers should yet be startled out of their follies by
the new fame rising up amongst them. Who was he, did they ask ? ..."
11. The Christian Examiner (1839)
"... neat, fashionable speech, that dropped from the mechanically wagging tongues
of such simperers. They went to the busy thoroughfares of the world, ..."
12. Promenades of an Impressionist by James Huneker (1910)
"Ninnies, simperers, and simpletons have vanished. The poor, suffering human frame
becomes a horrible musical instrument from which the artist extorts ..."
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