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Synonyms for moue

a facial contortion indicating displeasure, disgust, or pain

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Synonyms for moue

a disdainful grimace

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[beaucoup moins que]Decevantes et moues [beaucoup plus grand que], voila comment le Parti Al-Wafd a pour sa part qualifie les propositions de Dr Al-Baradei, et a juge qu'il marchait contre le courant.
Visages allonges et yeux brides a la Modigliani, plis, moues et penchements de cote, nez retrousses, chevelures collees et brillantes.
As the Cheetah pushes off from the ground, energy is released and moues Pistorius's body forward.
Scott's commentary on James's new conciliatory attitude also supports this potentially happy resolution: "Before this change none could moue him, all humane applications were as if men set their shoulders to a Rock: Nay all endeavour this way, procured more violent and resolute opposition: But now his heart is moued by God, it moues him, and he moues them, who would but could not moue him before, wils them to make hast, and to be swift in their motion, therby to make amends for former delaies" (50-51).
Moues CM, Vos MC, Van Den et al 2004 Bacterial load in relation to TNPTuum-assisted closure wound therapy: a prospective randomized trial Wound Repair Regeneration 12 (1) 11-7
Coleman, Efficiency, Auction and Exchange, in MARKETS, MOUES AND THE LAW
There was even at times an almost preening quality about that demeanor, those moues of self-satisfaction corresponding in direct proportion to the guest's astonishment at the arcana about his or her self that Linehan had managed to unearth.
Herb, however, turns in a performance that is close to genius: never, ever breaking character, he morphs flawlessly from flashing soulful moues at the audience to performing inspired pianistic acrobatics a la Elton John or Jerry Lee Lewis.
[and] She folds up her quivering wings with a number of shivers, moues and grimaces as if she were putting away a naughty book" (18) (my emphasis).
(29.) SC 52.1; SBOp 2:90.9; Song 3:49: "Has enim filias ierusalem dicit, quia, etsi delicatae et moues, et quasi adhuc femineis affectibus et actibus infirmae ..."
The lacuna in the manuscript in this play occurs just as the fourth 'Judeus' has had a bright idea, A new mater nowe moues me' (l.54).
(1981) Buying and Renting: Household Moues in Adelaide Canberra: Institute of Urban Studies.
Their carefully painted faces have the elastic expressiveness that real ballerinas are forbidden; they twist their lips into moues of envy or discomfort, and their smiles are just a little too ingratiating.