moue
Example Sentences
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Harper is haunted, and Buckley conveys her anxiety with wide, darting eyes, or twisting her mouth in a moue.
From Salon • May 20, 2022
Dern is in devilish form, right down to the little moue of sympathy that she gives when Nicole says, “I don’t want any money or anything.”
From The New Yorker • Nov. 1, 2019
But who cares what unknown forces shaped her mouth into its magnificent moue?
From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012
“Meet the new face of tranquility,” says the tagline above her miserable moue.
From Slate • Oct. 5, 2011
Here Dad would stop long enough to give his version of a depreciating moue, and hide his face coyly behind an upraised elbow.
From "Cheaper by the Dozen" by Frank B. Gilbreth Jr. and Ernestine Gilbreth Carey
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