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pout

[paut] / paʊt /
NOUN
sad face
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Lady Beckham's pout became her defining look in the 1990s.

From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2025

Yes, the heart-shaped lips and resting pout do some heavy lifting to pull off the baseball-loving mama’s boy, but Butler’s authenticity is irrefutable.

From Salon ● Aug. 29, 2025

She does several makeup tutorials during the Live, deftly lining her lips a deep mahogany shade as a cameraman zooms in on her voluminous pout.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 12, 2024

But Balcer refused to fold or let the fan base pout.

From Seattle Times ● May 3, 2024

Clara asked, lips turning downward into a pout.

From "Ophie's Ghosts" by Justina Ireland

"I can't endure the sound of laughter before noon," she pouts perfectly.

From Salon ● Jul. 24, 2022

Frantic and wildly overstuffed — with characters, locations, pretty pouts and greatest hits — the image that kept coming to mind was of an exploding piñata.

From New York Times ● May 26, 2022

“They’re gonna like you for who you are, not what you wear,” Disick says in a scene shot in a changing room as Kim pouts into a mirror.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2022

So picture the angel who gave them the hook, Enduring their protests and pouts.

From Washington Post ● Jan. 28, 2021

Mom tells her she can meet her date afterward, and Beth pouts.

From "A Mango-Shaped Space" by Wendy Mass

According to NBC News, he whined "no one is defending me" and pouted over the fact that there wasn't a big crowd of protesters outside.

From Salon ● May 10, 2024

He pulled away from me, pouted and went to sleep on the farthest end of the bed.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 10, 2023

I bought her a gift like I did Lana and Sophie, but once I gave Lana the gift card, she whined and pouted.

From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2023

So I responded as a typical teenager: I pouted, with my arms crossed, stubbornly refusing to enjoy it.

From New York Times ● Jan. 4, 2023

Laleh pouted, stretching her complaint out until it snapped.

From "Darius the Great Is Not Okay" by Adib Khorram

Putting flowers on Aunt May’s grave each day and pouting when MJ is finally like “Thanks for saying you love me . . . I don’t know you.”

From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2026

And yet the pouting Pratt pulled more than 200,000 votes.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 13, 2026

They looked like pouting kids on the playground—not the CEOs of OpenAI and Anthropic, two of the hottest names in the AI scene.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Mar. 7, 2026

I had snapped a photo earlier in which he appeared to be pouting.

From Slate ● Jan. 3, 2026

At first, whenever Pia'd skate back and forth across the parking lot outside the salon, Marcus, who was always pouting while sweeping up the hair inside the salon, would come out with her.

From "Look Both Ways" by Jason Reynolds


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