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wry face

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Noun1.wry facewry face - a disdainful grimace                
grimace, face - a contorted facial expression; "she made a grimace at the prospect"


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At first he made a wry face, but, one after another, the skins and the cores disappeared.
But Vronsky gazed at him exactly as he did at the lamp, and the young man made a wry face, feeling that he was losing his self-possession under the oppression of this refusal to recognize him as a person.
To look at your wry face, one would think that our rescue from the Arctic regions was a downright misfortune.
 
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