"simpering" meaning in English

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      "form": "most simpering",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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        {
          "ref": "1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 214:",
          "text": "Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, L. E. Modesitt, Jr, Madness in Solidar, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "Affected, smug, and supercilious."
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          "smug"
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          "supercilious",
          "supercilious"
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    }
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  "word": "simpering"
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        "present participle and gerund of simper"
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  "word": "simpering"
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      "form": "simperings",
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          "ref": "1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded:",
          "text": "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[…]",
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        "The act of one who simpers."
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    "English verbal nouns",
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      "form": "more simpering",
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        "superlative"
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        {
          "ref": "1892, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXI, in The American Claimant, New York, N.Y.: Charles L[uther] Webster & Co., →OCLC, page 214:",
          "text": "Why, look at him—look at this simpering self-righteous mug!",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1926, Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2004, David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, L. E. Modesitt, Jr, Madness in Solidar, →ISBN:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Affected, smug, and supercilious."
      ],
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          "Affected",
          "affected#Adjective"
        ],
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          "smug",
          "smug"
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          "supercilious",
          "supercilious"
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  "word": "simpering"
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          "simper#English"
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          "ref": "1740, Samuel Richardson, Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded:",
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      "glosses": [
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