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moue

[ US /ˈmu/ ]
NOUN
  1. a disdainful grimace

How To Use moue In A Sentence

  • Sophy snatched at the doll petulantly, and made what the French call a moue at the good man as she suffered her grandfather to replace her on the sofa. What Will He Do with It? — Complete
  • His typical facial expression is to set his mouth in a moue, somewhere between a pucker and a pout. Terry Krepel: Newsmax Gets Trumped
  • Up he came, whom Charlotte welcomed very demurely, and so left us, saying that she must go about her household business; but as she departed she cast a look back at me, making a "moue," as the French say, with her red lips. A Monk of Fife
  • Angliæ; ad quam omnes supplices confugiunt, incrementum omnium rerum et actionum Serenitatis vestræ beatissimum, exitusque foelicissimos à Creatore omnipotente optantes, mutuáque et perpetua familiaritate nostra digna vota et laudes sempiternas offerentes: Significamus Ser. vestræ amicissimè; Quia sunt anni aliquot, à quibus annis potentissima Cæsarea celsitudo bella ineffabilia cum Casul-bas, Principe nempe Persarum gessit; ratione quorum bellorum in partes alias bellum mouere noluit, ob eamque causam in partibus The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 05 Central and Southern Europe
  • Between her half-frozen ears and flushed cheeks, a battle between a hopeful smile and an exhausted moue idled at a stalemate. The Fugitive Waits
  • Elaine met Sam's eyes, made a plaintive moue, and let herself be swept into the building, since there seemed to be no alternative.
  • Pro hac arena venitur per aquas, et per terras, et exportatur manibus et vehiculis propè et procul, et quantumcúnque de die exhauritur, repleta manè altero reperitur: Et est in fossa ventus grandis et iugis, qui mirabiliter arenam commouere videtur. The Voyages and Travels of Sir John Mandeville
  • Wang Guangqi was a postiue social activist of radical democratism during the May Fourth Mouement period.
  • Miss Osborne frowned, her lips pursing in a quick moue of distaste, obviously unsure whether she was being ridiculed. Earl of Durkness
  • ‘Well,’ said Lady Jedburgh, making a little moue as she rose from the sofa, ‘if I am not to be allowed to go on the stage, I must be allowed to be part of the audience at any rate.’
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