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make a wry face

verb as in grimace

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Example Sentences

No, no, don't make a wry face, Tom.

"Yes, madame," I replied, with an expression that made Madame Dauberny smile; and it seemed to me that that smile caused Monsieur Archibald to make a wry face.

Humiliation.—If in a large sack of profit we find a single grain of humiliation we still make a wry face even at our good luck.

Ah! you lout, do you make a wry face?

From time to time he would interrupt operations to make a wry face and, blinking his eyes, to lisp out rapturously, "Sour!"

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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