grimace

[Gri*mace·]

The grimace on her face when he asked her to the prom told him her answer was "no" before she said a word. A grimace is a facial expression that usually suggests disgust or pain, but sometimes comic exaggeration.

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A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.

Noun
a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"

Verb
contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"

n.
A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.

v. i.
To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

Grimace

Gri*mace" , n. [F., prob. of Teutonic origin; cf. AS. grma mask, specter, Ical. grma mask, hood, perh. akin to E. grin.] A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.

Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion.

&hand; "Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's "Marriage a-la-Mode," as innovations in our language, are now in common usa: chagrin, double--entendre, '82claircissement, embarras, '82quivoque, foible, grimace, na'8bvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use." I. Disraeli.

Grimace

Gri*mace", v. i. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.

A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.

To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

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Usage Examples

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

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