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
“I don’t know Prince Andrew,” Trump sighed with a moue, despite there being significant photographic evidence to the contrary.
From The Guardian • Dec. 3, 2019
What is beyond doubt is the scheming suavity with which Huppert arms her character; seldom has the famous French moue been put to such withering use.
From The New Yorker • Nov. 13, 2016
My eyebrows were plucked to a single arched line, my mouth set in a jaded moue.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 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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The Lingo of Body Language
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