Crossword-Solution: SIMPERS
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SIMPERS | anagram | IMPRESS, PREMISS |
We have 14 clues for the answer “SIMPERS”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Affected smiles | 1 answer |
| Grins self-consciously | 1 answer |
| Grins that need to be wiped off their faces | 1 answer |
| Makes a silly smile | 1 answer |
| Smiles coyly | 1 answer |
| Smiles in a silly manner. | 1 answer |
| Smiles self-consciously | 1 answer |
| Smiles sillily. | 1 answer |
| Smirks | 2 answers |
| Aesthetic Affectedly | 10 answers |
| AFFECTEDLY CREATIVE | 10 answers |
| AFFECTEDLY DRAMATIC | 10 answers |
| AFFECTEDLY GENTEEL | 10 answers |
| Affectedly polite | 11 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
EEZMCA
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with SIMPERS (5)
Yet--and it cannot be minced--he and gentility with regard to many things are at strange divergency; he shrinks from many things at which gentility placidly hums a tune, or approvingly simpers, and does some things at which gentility positively shrinks.
The sergeant-painter and the deputy sergeant-painter were, indeed, conventional performers enough; as mechanical in their dispensation of wigs, finger-rings, ruffles, and simpers, as the figure of the armed knight who struck the bell in the Residence tower.
Just as with your airs and simpers, and prettily-played innocences you fooled this other, here, into being your champion.” “Madam, you insult me!” Hortensia was on her feet, eyes flashing, cheeks aflame.
Burroughs, you must know why I didn't! Why, I was scared 'most to death to read the accounts of the terrible affair; and to mix in it, myself--ugh! I couldn't dream of anything so horrible.” It was absurd, but I had a desire to shake the silly little bundle of femininity who told this really important story, with the twitters and simpers of a silly school-girl.
And then, too, the elder girl had said nothing about another side of the question, had not touched on the sighs and simpers, the winged glances, and drooped, provocative lids--all the thousand and one fooleries, in short, which Laura saw her and others employ.
Quotes with SIMPERS (1)
Look at what I wrote at the beginning of this memoir. Have I caught anything at all of the extraordinary night when Paul Dempster was born? I am pretty sure that my little sketch of Percy Boyd Staunton is accurate, but what about myself? I have always sneered at autobiographies and memoirs in which the writer appears at the beginning as a charming, knowing little fellow, possessed of insights and perceptions beyond his years, yet offering these with false naivete to the reade…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Chronicle, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.
Used 12 times in crossword archives (1951–2019).