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simperingly

simperingly adverb: in a simpering way.

Adverb

simperingly (comparative more simperingly, superlative most simperingly)

  1. In a simpering way.
    • In an other corner, Mistris Minx, a marchants wife, that will eate no cherries, forsooth, but when they are at twentie shillings a pound, that lookes as simperingly as if she were besmeard, and iets it as gingerly as if she were dancing the canaries, […]1592, Thomas Nash[e], Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. […], London: […] [John Charlewood for] Richard Ihones, […], →OCLC

Forms of simperingly

comparativemore simperingly
superlativemost simperingly

Origin of simperingly

From simpering + -ly.

Questions about simperingly

What does simperingly mean?
Simperingly means in a simpering way.
What part of speech is simperingly?
Simperingly is an adverb.

Words near simperingly in the dictionary

  1. simpered out
  2. simperer
  3. simperers
  4. simpering
  5. simpering out
  6. simperingly
  7. simperings
  8. simpers
  9. simpers out
  10. simpery
  11. simphonies

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