: marked by insipidity or by affected or ingratiating timidity
simpering behavior
a simpering smile/tone
During job interviews, I always felt like a simpering idiot. Nancy Scott Hanway
… spoofy moments featuring a simpering newswoman … Pauline Kael
… the indignities of office life, from boorish bosses to simpering middle managers to byzantine bureaucracies. Charles Bramesco
simperinglyadverb
What a relief to meet a heroine who was not so simperingly, crushingly perfect and pretty as most of the approved Pollyannas we encountered in conventional fiction! Michele Landsberg