shrugging's Usage Examples:

Dean screamed after Vinnie, shrugging off Harrigan and slumping into his chair.

"Why no, my dear fellow," said the astonished narrator, shrugging his shoulders.

Pretending you don't care when he mentions that he has two tickets for the hottest show in town, or nonchalantly shrugging when the Cindy Crawford look-a-like says she headed to the local coffee shop "alone".

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.

That was horrible! said the little princess, shrugging her shoulders.

Engulfed by a wave of homesickness, she turned away, shrugging off the unexpected emotion.

"What would you have, my dear fellow?" answered Pierre, shrugging his shoulders.

He paced up and down his room, now turning his thoughts on a difficult problem and frowning, now suddenly shrugging his shoulders and wincing, and now smiling happily.

It can't be helped! said the count, shrugging his shoulders and speaking playfully of a matter that evidently distressed him.

Who's to say there aren't genetic variations that lend people to being different? he asked, shrugging.

Ryland continued, shrugging off his heavy jacket.

More shrugging didn't seem to be enough.

"Yes, so it is, so it is," said the general angrily, lowering the field glass and shrugging his shoulders, "so it is!Metivier, shrugging his shoulders, went up to Mademoiselle Bourienne who at the sound of shouting had run in from an adjoining room.

Synonyms:

gesticulate, motion, gesture,

Antonyms:

motionlessness, moving, nonmoving, retreat,