moue

Here, a midnight selfie from the trip: in the camera’s white flash, Tara’s purple buzzcut and wide, wry grin; his sheepish moue at his wormy mustache.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022

Harper is haunted, and Buckley conveys her anxiety with wide, darting eyes, or twisting her mouth in a moue.

From Salon ● May 20, 2022

What is beyond doubt is the scheming suavity with which Huppert arms her character; seldom has the famous French moue been put to such withering use.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2016

But who cares what unknown forces shaped her mouth into its magnificent moue?

From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2012

Aarfy winked encouragingly and jerked his thumb back toward McWatt with a humorous moue.

From "Catch-22" by Joseph Heller

The first lady calls her “a menopausal toddler” — a description that Rachel Dratch, with her repertoire of cringes and moues, fully inhabits.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

They may make moues at gnus or gape at apes, gawk at giraffes, elephants and zebras capering au naturel, or goggle at performing beasts, birds and fishes of uncanny talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I wish somebody would love me," he moues to Martin Milner on a 1950 episode of Life With Father.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the world of beauties Nature lent, And in each beautie worlds of loues content, Wherein delight and state moues circuler, Pleasure being captaine to thy Hemisphere.

From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Paul William Miller

There's nothing mads or moues her more to outrage, then but the very naming of a wispe, or if you sing or whistle when she is scoulding.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by John Earle