as in to frown
to distort one's face
playgoers grimaced at the actor's terrible attempt at a French accent
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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
Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024
On her face is something halfway between a grimace and an incredulous smile—a facial expression that many Harris supporters likely recognize as a universal, exasperated response to a Trump rant.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear’s bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The greenish brown liquid drew a mixture of curious expressions, and then disgusted grimaces, from the teenagers.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
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McVay had no update about the specifics of the injury, but Kupp exited the locker room with a forlorn grimace and a knee-high protective boot on his left foot and ankle.
—Gary Klein, Los Angeles Times, 15 Sep. 2024
On her face is something halfway between a grimace and an incredulous smile—a facial expression that many Harris supporters likely recognize as a universal, exasperated response to a Trump rant.
—Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 11 Sep. 2024
In a picture from that day, Kennedy is putting his fingers inside the bear’s bloody mouth, a comical grimace across his face.
—Clare Malone, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024
The greenish brown liquid drew a mixture of curious expressions, and then disgusted grimaces, from the teenagers.
—Siddhant Pusdekar, Journal Sentinel, 16 July 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for grimace
Verb
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What Wyler is frowning about, past this threat to her own ambition — that’s less coherent.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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In all three cases, Google is fighting desperately to avoid being broken up as a monopoly, and judges have frowned deeply upon its handling of evidence.Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The New Orleans rapper was shirtless in both photos, sporting an incredulous expression in the first and an angry scowl in the second.Armon Sadler, VIBE.com, 11 Sep. 2024
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Even Trump’s scowl in his booking photo made its way onto mugs and NFTs in his campaign store.Jessica Guynn, USA TODAY, 8 Aug. 2024
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The traditional media business has been staring at these multiple roads for years now, and none of them are anywhere near as bucolic as Frost’s woods.Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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By then, after so many years staring at a sideways world, everything had started to appear off-kilter.Joseph Bien-Kahn, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2024
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Here’s the description: The Superstitious Man is the kind who washes his hands in three springs, sprinkles himself with water from a temple font, puts a laurel sprig in his mouth, and then is ready for the day’s perambulations.Popular Science Staff, Popular Science, 6 Nov. 2024
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This time, a man wearing a gaiter that covered his nose and mouth was accompanied by three other individuals who appeared intimidating to Raimi.Tresa Baldas, Detroit Free Press, 6 Nov. 2024
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Wesley Snipes is the pinnacle of undead cool as the titular daywalker, with Stephen Dorff as his perfect sneering foil.Jordan Crucchiola, Vulture, 29 Oct. 2024
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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).Nancy Tartaglione, Deadline, 28 Oct. 2024
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Ben Daniels’s charming smirk has not convinced me, though.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 1 Oct. 2024
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The smirk of a male who’s knows he’s protected by a misogynist sporting establishment enjoying the distress of a woman he’s just punched in the head, and whose life’s ambition he’s just shattered.Zack Sharf, Variety, 1 Aug. 2024
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“Grimace.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/grimace. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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