(n.) A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary aad occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
(v. i.) To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.
Example Sentences:
(1) When I commiserate about the overnight flight that brought them here, Linney gives a wry grimace.
(2) The authors describe two cases of tardive dyskinesia in which severe axial dystonia and intense facial grimacing produced marked discomfort as well as social and physical disability.
(3) At the time of presentation the child exhibited dilated pupils, ataxia, urinary retention, and facial grimacing.
(4) Typically, their ongoing ward behavior consisted of very low level activity, involving small peripheral limb movements, wandering or blinking eyes, mouthing or grimacing, and repetitive, reflexive types of patterns labeled "fixed action sequences."
(5) Subjects were placed alone in a room where purposeful oral activity such as eating, talking and smoking was not permitted, while activity such as pursing the lips sucking on cheeks, grimaces etc was measured by a specially designed electromyometer.
(6) Where there were pictures of powerful women, the images tended to be subversive: the same photograph of a grimacing Theresa May was used to illustrate three different stories about the home secretary, and two of the three pictures of the German chancellor showed Angela Merkel puffing out her cheeks, looking mildly absurd.
(7) This manifests itself as a bit of a grimace when a kiddie pops up in front of his gun, a tut when colleagues show a lack of concern for collateral damage. "
(8) Madrid artist Deno is oblivious to the grimacing, concentrating on needling a giant scaly fish into his chest.
(9) We are preparing to erect a tent city close to the border.” Silva Ali, 10, grimaces as she swallows the polio vaccine administered, then sticks out her tongue.
(10) Case 1 (proband): A 28-year-old man was hospitalized because of facial grimace, dysarthria, and generalized dystonia.
(11) See how much I look like Eric!” he said, grimacing.
(12) Mild or severe discomfort, in the form of straining, stretching, arching, grimacing, writhing, shaking, doubling up, eye closure and restlessness is reported in 69 cases.
(13) When I tell friends I'm going to meet him, they grimace and roll their eyes.
(14) According to official witnesses, Angel Diaz strained against the straps, grimaced and attempted to mouth words for nearly a half-hour after the start of the procedure.
(15) Yet here they stand, a reality-TV star turning it on for the camera, his unnaturally white teeth bearing a smile – or is it a grimace?
(16) After 3 and 12 months, respectively, two of the cebus monkeys developed buccolingual signs (grimacing and tongue protrusion), similar to tardive dyskinesia in the clinic.
(17) As her energetic terriers Benny and Buddy squabble, nipping and harassing half a dozen other spaniels and terriers tearing after tennis balls on the softly sloping hill that marks the Battle of Bannockburn, Gail NcNeill looks up at the greatest hero of Scottish independence and grimaces.
(18) The Queen's perma-grimace belied her true feelings.
(19) After all, she asks, before proceeding to pose for the camera with two crab-shaped balloons, grimacing and spitting sexual innuendos ("Crabbbbbbbbbbbssss!
(20) The responses consisted of an immediate withdrawal of both the affected and unaffected leg, followed by facial grimacing and crying.
Wince
Definition:
(v. i.) To shrink, as from a blow, or from pain; to flinch; to start back.
(v. i.) To kick or flounce when unsteady, or impatient at a rider; as, a horse winces.
(n.) The act of one who winces.
(n.) A reel used in dyeing, steeping, or washing cloth; a winch. It is placed over the division wall between two wince pits so as to allow the cloth to descend into either compartment. at will.
Example Sentences:
(1) Boris winced; his presence in the house is becoming ever more marginal and Osborne is now the clear favourite to become the next leader of the Tory party.
(2) We might as well put a white cat in his lap.” The photographer asks McCluskey to hold the king up to the camera, and the press officer laughs with a wince.
(3) Even as Germany winced its way through three years of crisis, bailouts and skyrocketing national debt, openly anti-euro sentiments have remained off-limits for all mainstream parties.
(4) Tory grandees visibly winced on television as the scale of the defeat sank in - and Basildon, symbol of their salvation among Essex voters in 1992, went Labour on a 15 per cent swing.
(5) "Any politician that claims to you that they're an ordinary person is not telling you the truth," Miliband mutters, half smiling and wincing.
(6) Candidate of the day Aforementioned Lindsay candidate Fiona Scott, who laughed a little too loudly at her leader’s comment as his daughter Frances, standing right beside her father, visibly winced.
(7) He cradles a black tea, wincing every time crockery crashes in the kitchen of the backstreet London cafe we're seated in.
(8) The pizza flew, the tackles made you wince and there was no love lost between Wenger and Ferguson.
(9) We slightly wince, on behalf of those more tightly bound to laborious necessity, when we read that "to maintain one's self on this earth is not hardship but a pastime, if we will live simply and wisely", and that "by working about six weeks in a year, I could meet all the expenses of living".
(10) Yet well-meaning westerners – health experts, development workers, sustainability folk and so on – are wont to wince at the sight.
(11) One wince during this procedure could get you shunned from society.
(12) People tend to wince at the cost of having furniture reupholstered, but when you think about how long it should last (a well-upholstered chair should be good for 30 years) there's nothing throwaway about it.
(13) Neid, though, was becoming increasingly vexed by what she clearly perceived as some rough-house tactics from England, including some rather wince-inducing challenges.
(14) The balderdash quotient is high at all party conferences, but at a time like this people will wince more than ever at high-minded phrases from government ministers that disguise a very different reality.
(15) I must remind you of the seriousness of the assault and that you were arrested, not her.” Indeed, this assault was so serious that it left Ruffley’s ex-partner “wincing in obvious pain” when her friend Ward saw her afterwards.
(16) Ward, a friend of Ruffley's former partner, said the woman had "winced in obvious pain" when they hugged in greeting a few days after the incident and told of how frightened she had been of his "rage and violent behaviour".
(17) NEW WONKS Conservative Voice, a joint venture of disaffected Tory big beasts Liam Fox and David Davis, was launched with much fanfare and, no doubt, no small amount of wincing by Cameron last week.
(18) Grainger, courtesy of a hugely emotional win alongside Anna Watkins in the women's double sculls, now has a gold to add to her three previous wince-inducing silvers.
(19) He does it with a budget of £30m a year, but only £12m of that is spent on programming, he says (still enough to make commercial stations wince).
(20) Well” she begins, shifting her position and wincing, “I was playing with my son’s dinosaur, and it’s stuck.” “OK, Mrs T, but why are you in the sexual health clinic today?” I continue, somewhat bemused.