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grimace

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noun

as in scowl
a twisting of the facial features in disgust or disapproval he made a grimace when he tasted the medicine

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Recent Examples of grimace
Noun
Muscles bulging and soaked in sweat, his face is etched in a grimace of extreme exertion. Sarah Shephard, The Athletic, 7 Jan. 2025 Forgetting this city was about 60% Yuppy Town, three distressed grimaces and one sly smile appeared. Josh Honeycutt, Outdoor Life, 1 Jan. 2025 There’s a fine line between a grin and a grimace. Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 2 Dec. 2024 Associated with such grimaces were very fast upward swinging movements of the arms and alternate bending and straightening of each leg such that the right foot especially would stamp against the ground. Caitlyn Murphy, Hazlitt, 13 Nov. 2024 See All Example Sentences for grimace
Recent Examples of Synonyms for grimace
Verb
  • Bolsonaro, who had sat apart from the other candidates, frowned furiously.
    Jon Lee Anderson, New Yorker, 7 Apr. 2025
  • There were even rumors that sneezing in McMahon's presence was frowned upon, as it was perceived as a sign of weakness.
    John W. Dean, MSNBC Newsweek, 5 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • A little over an hour later, Zalatoris walked out of the scoring building with a tight scowl.
    Brody Miller, The Athletic, 16 Mar. 2025
  • Dave comes off like a human scowl, and requires little of Liu besides completely tamping down any sense of natural charisma the Shang-Chi star has.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 28 Feb. 2025
Verb
  • Perhaps the Staring Girl is just that, a staring girl.
    Nick Romano, EW.com, 7 Apr. 2025
  • But Oskar continued to be mesmerized, staring at the rotating blades.
    Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 Apr. 2025
Noun
  • It does so by replacing the minerals in your teeth that would otherwise be lost to acid coming from bacteria in your mouth.
    Joseph Choi, The Hill, 9 Apr. 2025
  • Nothing worse than burning your mouth and chewing then breathing like a dragon.
    Raja Krishnamoorthi, MSNBC Newsweek, 9 Apr. 2025
Verb
  • Yet everything remains the same for Delia whose romantic fantasies have given way to an embrace of her roles as dutiful wife and loving mother despite the sneering condescension and outright physical abuse at the hands of her strutting petty tyrant husband Ivano (Valerio Mastandrea).
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 7 Mar. 2025
  • President Donald Trump and Vice President JD Vance have the vulgarity to sneer at what Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy is wearing?
    Chicago Tribune, Chicago Tribune, 5 Mar. 2025
Noun
  • Little things, like the close-ups of Moss’s face with her little smirk, used so frequently as to lose all meaning, began to irritate me.
    Erik Kain, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2025
  • The fifth season began with the smirk seen ’round the globe, pitting June Osborne (Moss) against Serena Joy Waterford (Yvonne Strahovski).
    Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 19 Mar. 2025

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“Grimace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grimace. Accessed 22 Apr. 2025.

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