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shrug
noun as in gesticulation
noun as in gesture
Weak matches
Example Sentences
While a challenge for the companies involved, investors are clearly shrugging off the impact of beef prices.
“We were all so middle of the road,” is her answer, offered with a cynical shrug.
The market reacted to yet another major news story with a collective shrug.
Moral relativism and the ratchet effect will ensure that there is always some precedent close enough to persuade people to shrug even when confronted with some evidence of genuine turpitude on their own side.
Mobs march through London screaming “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free,” and the police shrug.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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