simperingly

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English

Etymology

From simpering +‎ -ly.

Adverb

simperingly (comparative more simperingly, superlative most simperingly)

  1. In a simpering way.
    • 1592, Thomas Nash, Pierce Penilesse His Supplication to the Deuill. , London: Richard Ihones, , →OCLC:
      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,