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wry: bent to one side; "a wry neck"

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rictus collapse: a gaping grimace

pout collapse: a disdainful grimace; make a sad face and thrust out one's lower lip; "mop and mow"; "The girl pouted"

sardonic collapse: disdainfully or ironically humorous; scornful and mocking; "his rebellion is the bitter, sardonic laughter of all great satirists"- Frank Schoenberner; "a wry pleasure to be...reminded of all that one is missing"- Irwin Edman

grimace collapse: a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"; contort the face to indicate a certain mental or emotional state; "He grimaced when he saw the amount of homework he had to do"

agee collapse: United States novelist (1909-1955)

catawampous collapse

long face collapse

mow collapse: cut with a blade or mower; "mow the grass"

scowl collapse: frown with displeasure

squinting collapse

glower collapse: look at with a fixed gaze; "The girl glared at the man who tried to make a pass at her"

skewed collapse

ironic collapse: characterized by often poignant difference or incongruity between what is expected and what actually is; "madness, an ironic fate for such a clear thinker"; "it was ironical that the well-planned scheme failed so completely"

frown collapse: a facial expression of dislike or displeasure; look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

awry collapse: away from the correct or expected course; "something has gone awry in our plans"; "something went badly amiss in the preparations"

askew collapse: turned or twisted toward one side; "a...youth with a gorgeous red necktie all awry"- G.K.Chesterton; "his wig was, as the British say, skew-whiff"; turned or twisted to one side; "rugs lying askew"; "with his necktie twisted awry"

wrest collapse: obtain by seizing forcibly or violently, also metaphorically; "wrest the knife from his hands"; "wrest a meaning from the old text"; "wrest power from the old government"

snarl collapse: an angry vicious expression; a vicious angry growl; make more complicated or confused through entanglements; make a snarling noise or move with a snarling noise; "Bullets snarled past us"

wring collapse: twist and compress, as if in pain or anguish; "Wring one's hand"; twist, squeeze, or compress in order to extract liquid; "wring the towels"

skew collapse: having an oblique or slanting direction or position; "the picture was skew"; turn or place at an angle; "the lines on the sheet of paper are skewed"

cockeyed collapse

crooked collapse: having or marked by bends or angles; not straight or aligned; "crooked country roads"; "crooked teeth"; not straight; dishonest or immoral or evasive

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