grimaces's Usage Examples:

I can see his odd grimaces, and hear him swear so funnily in his speeches, as if it were but yesterday!Funnily enough, no other bayonet fencers turned up.

In disorganized (hebephrenic) schizophrenia, the patient is incoherent, with flat or inappropriate emotions, disorganized behavior, and bizarre, stereotyped movements and grimaces.

Examples of simple motor tics include nose wrinkling, facial grimaces, eye blinking, jerking the neck, shrugging the shoulders, or tensing the muscles of the abdomen.

An infant who grimaces during stimulation might be given a one, while an infant who cries and/or coughs during stimulation may be given a two.

His grimaces, his gestures, his mutterings, sometimes diverted and sometimes terrified people who did not know him.

He could barely run and turning brought more grimaces of pain.

I got so many grimaces dressed as a nun at Run For Home, I think I'll wear the same!I can see his odd grimaces, and hear him swear so funnily in his speeches, as if it were but yesterday!Granted, we saw only the grimaces of the revolution.

GUENON (from the French, one who grimaces, hence an ape), the name applied by naturalists to the monkeys of the African genus Cercopithecus, the Ethiopian representative of the Asiatic macaques, from which they differ by the absence of a posterior heel to the last molar in the lower jaw.

Synonyms:

wince, squinch, communicate, glower, lower, squint, mow, make a face, screw up, mop, intercommunicate, pull a face, smile, pout, lour, frown,

Antonyms:

fixed-width font, stand still, excommunicate, raise, ascend,