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noun

Grimace n. A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face. "Moving his face into such a hideous grimace, that every feature of it appeared under a different distortion." Note: "Half the French words used affectedly by Melantha in Dryden's 'Marriage a-la-Mode," as innovations in our language, are now in common use: chagrin, double-entendre, éclaircissement, embarras, équivoque, foible, grimace, naïvete, ridicule. All these words, which she learns by heart to use occasionally, are now in common use."

verb

Grimace v. i. To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

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Etymology of 'Grimace'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Grimace" Quotes from Famous Books

... already jumped to his feet. The grimace of hate on his youthful face made him almost unrecognizable. His hand had gone into a pocket, and now he was leaping up and across the table, a singing ...

— Unwise Child • Gordon Randall Garrett

... the prisoners, his humane and kindly nature prompting him to ascertain that no undue harshness was displayed towards them by the rude soldiers. But Joanna, although her face was full of interest and eagerness, shook her head with a little grimace and a glance in the direction of her governess, Lady Edeline; for during the years that had elapsed between the visit of the royal children to Rhuddlan and this present visit to Carnarvon, Joanna had grown from a child to a woman, and was no longer able to run ...

— The Lord of Dynevor • Evelyn Everett-Green

... passage was, both (and both are very clever people, one a writer, one a painter) pronounced it a guide-book. 'Do you think it unusually good guide-book?' I asked. And both said, 'No, not at all!' Their grimace was a picture ...

— Philip Gilbert Hamerton • Philip Gilbert Hamerton et al

... the introduction, while Miss Wild blushed and nodded an embarrassed greeting, then immediately turned her face away from the focus of the professor's observation and made a comical grimace which came very near proving too much ...

— Katherine's Sheaves • Mrs. Georgie Sheldon

... on the screen, looked annoyed, and Jay Allison said, with a grimace of distaste, "I didn't mean that literally. But the trailmen are not human. It wouldn't be genocide, just an exterminator's ...

— The Planet Savers • Marion Zimmer Bradley

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