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(n)
A wrinkling of the forehead with the eyebrows brought together, typically indicating displeasure, severity, or concentration.
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An angry glare or stare.
A frown, a scowl; an angry or sullen look.
A contorted facial expression, often expressing contempt or pain.
The act of making a grimace.
An uneven, often crooked smile that is insolent, self-satisfied, conceited or scornful.
A facial expression where one slightly raises one corner of the upper lip, generally indicating scorn.
The act by which someone winces; a grimace.
A smile in which the lips are parted to reveal the teeth.
A fit of sulking or sullenness.
(informal) A habitually grumpy or complaining person.
The act of snarling; a growl; a surly or peevish expression; an angry contention.
A state of sulking.
A derisive or mocking expression of scorn, contempt, or reproach.
An instance of smile-smirking; a combined smile and smirk.
One who is grumpy or irritable.
The act of one who sulks.
(idiomatic, vulgar) A broad smile indicating self-awareness that may suggest self-satisfaction, smugness, discomfort, or embarrassment.
(UK dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) A sulky or sullen mood; the sulks.
Alternative form of eye-roll. [The circular movement of one's eyes, usually suggesting feelings of exasperation, disbelief or frustration.]
An expression or motion that pouts; a pout.
(idiomatic) An unpleasant look (as in a gaze).
(adj)
Contemptful, mocking.
(informal) A work or event featuring a great deal of smirking or smugness.
A state of sulking; sullen mood.
A surly complaint.
A low, mournful sound uttered in pain or grief.
Any open-mouthed expression.
(Australia, Atlantic Canada, New Zealand, slang, derogatory) A crybaby, a complainer, a whinger; a shy or timid person, a wimp; a coward.
(obsolete) A sneer; a flout.
Someone who smiles.
A deep, rumbling, threatening sound made in the throat by an animal.
A fold or wrinkle.
An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, or dismissal; a huff, grunt, or snort.
A low, mournful cry of pain, sorrow or pleasure.
(obsolete) A sulky look.
The circular movement of one's eyes, usually suggesting feelings of exasperation, disbelief or frustration.
Something that has an oblique or slanted position.
An expression in which the eyes are partly closed.
Alternative form of stink eye. [(idiomatic) An unpleasant look (as in a gaze).]
The utterance of a moan.
The act of one who squints.
A pursing of the lips.
The act of one who scoffs; derision; mockery.
(vulgar) Synonym of shit-eating grin.
Growling, having a snarl.
A low sound associated with extended suffering, sorrow, and toil.
(countable, uncountable) Any low, indistinct sound, like that of running water.
Alternative spelling of harumph. [An expression of disdain, disbelief, protest, or dismissal; a huff, grunt, or snort.]
(euphemistic, rare) A shit-eating grin.
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A scolding.
A subdued growling or grumbling.
A group of birds that have suddenly started up from undergrowth, trees, etc.
(informal) A particularly egregious joke, especially a pun.
The act of one who grizzles; peevish whining.
A wrinkle.
A short snorting sound, often to show disapproval, or used as a reply when one is reluctant to speak.
The act of scoffing; mockery.
(slang) The act of squirming.
(v)
To murmur or rumble.
(derogatory) One who complains.
Alternative form of poult. [A young bird, a chick; now especially, a young game bird (turkey, partridge, grouse etc.).]
A sibilant sound, such as that made by a snake or escaping steam; an unvoiced fricative.
(usually in the plural) Either of the two skin folds that run from each side of the nose to the corners of the mouth.
A device used to prevent an animal from biting or eating, which is worn on its snout.
A disagreeable, irritable or sullen mood; surliness.
Offensive and abusive language or behaviour; scorn, insult.
A common, firm, round fruit produced by a tree of the genus Malus.
A mocking utterance.
A throng or crowd of people or things; a mass, a pack.
The jaw, jawbone; especially one of the lateral parts of the mandible.
A mocking remark or reflection.
Wrinkles at the outer corners of the eye.
A young hog or pig
A small furrow, ridge or crease in an otherwise smooth surface.
The act by which something crumples.
A deceit; a trick.
A laugh line
A murmuring sound; rushing, rustling, or whistling sound.
(Scotland) A grunting sound.
Synonym of death growl.
A harsh grating sound.
To beg or scrounge.
(uncountable, slang, derogatory) Things, particularly online content, which would cause an onlooker to cringe from secondhand embarrassment.
(obsolete) A shriek or shrieking; sobbing.
US spelling of bad humour. [irritability or surliness]
A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness.
(countable) A high-pitched strident or piercing sound, such as that between a moving object and any surface.
A scornful or mocking remark; a jeer or mockery.
The utterance of a sigh.
The act of one who squalls; a crying or wailing.
An expression of mirth particular to the human species; the sound heard in laughing; laughter.
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A brief raising of the eyebrows as an unconscious social signal when approaching another person to interact with them.
A fictional man-eating predator that dwells in the dark.