moue

Here, a midnight selfie from the trip: in the camera’s white flash, Tara’s purple buzzcut and wide, wry grin; his sheepish moue at his wormy mustache.

From Slate ● Sep. 24, 2022

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

Dern is in devilish form, right down to the little moue of sympathy that she gives when Nicole says, “I don’t want any money or anything.”

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 1, 2019

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

The first lady calls her “a menopausal toddler” — a description that Rachel Dratch, with her repertoire of cringes and moues, fully inhabits.

From New York Times ● Apr. 27, 2022

"I wish somebody would love me," he moues to Martin Milner on a 1950 episode of Life With Father.

From Time Magazine Archive

They may make moues at gnus or gape at apes, gawk at giraffes, elephants and zebras capering au naturel, or goggle at performing beasts, birds and fishes of uncanny talent.

From Time Magazine Archive

To the world of beauties Nature lent, And in each beautie worlds of loues content, Wherein delight and state moues circuler, Pleasure being captaine to thy Hemisphere.

From Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) by Paul William Miller

If it be for none of all these causes but vpon some sodaine occasion that moues a man to breake of his tale, then thus.

From The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham