The word "simper" is correct in written English.
It is used to describe a smile with a hint of mockery, or a affectedly coy, self-conscious, or ingratiating expression. For example, "The waiter’s simper made me suspicious of his intentions."
Floating through the patterns of Les Sylphides, the Trocks – the world's best-loved drag ballet troupe – simper sweetly until something goes terribly wrong.
Catchphrases Once upon a time, we used to get to autumn and simper about it "getting a bit nippy outside" - but now, instead, we can drop our voices two octaves, stare into the middle distance, and declare "Winter is coming" like the pop-cultural genii we are.
She only ever posed for one photographic portrait: aged thirty-nine, sitssits, long-chinned and large-nosed, with a forced simper on her face.
But there's always my unfortunate Krusty-the-Clown instinct, which is heightened because I can hear the audience, hear a hundred people breathing and going" — he parted his lips and gave an expectant simper.
(Fashion-intensive portraiture befits the more modest gifts of Whistler's contemporary James Tissot, who was content to simper winningly).
Faris calls such parts "the girl," or "bounce-card roles," after the reflective sheet that softens the light around an actor, because the whole job is to giggle, simper, and coo.
The simpering fop part was played as a simpering fop by one of our most celebrated simpering fop actors, complete with straw-coloured wig and buckle shoes.
– will look sympathetically (simper-thetically) on our efforts.
The gang back together!" he simpered, envisioning a headline set at the Royal Academy – they could do Ophelia as an encore and get Ruskin on vibes and everything!
The plodding Somewhere Like You piano chords give him plenty of room for melisma as a pyramid string section does some simple simpering.
I experienced this myself in an interview for a well-trodden classic role traditionally played as a simpering fop.
