Thesaurus: grimace

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1. 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.
2. v. i. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
3. n. a contorted facial expression
4. v. contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state
5. 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. Addison. Note: "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, éclaircissement, embarras, équivoque, foible, grimace, naïvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use." I. Disraeli. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces. H. Martineau.
6. A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, fromaffectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, ascontempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.Moving his face into such a hideons grimace, that every feature of itappeared under a different distortion. Addison.
7. n:32/v:68 n. a contorted facial expression v. contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state