Meanings (ES + gloss)
sonrisa afectada
A foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, or affected smile; a smirk.
He paused, and then a strange expression appeared on his lips. It was very like a simper.
Yes, another world it was, when these black ruins, white in their new mortar and fresh chiselling, first saw the sun as walls, long ago. Gauge not, with thy dilettante compasses, w…
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Meanings (ES + gloss)
sonreírse afectadamente
To smile in a foolish, frivolous, self-conscious, coy, obsequious, or smug manner.
How the fools kotowed and simpered while I looked over their jewels and speculated upon how much I could get for them!
a whimpering, simpering child
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