Grimace

Four-year-old Sam begrudgingly ate his broccoli with a grimace on his face.

Tom leant in to kiss Mary, but she recoiled with a grimace.

His face was twisted into a grimace.

The slightest body language, smile or grimace, or sign of impatience and exasperation will be analyzed and interpreted.

"Well, I've had mine"—Stafford made a slight grimace—"and there's plenty left for you, if you don't mind eating after me."

Half-hidden under his beard his emaciated lips kept the monotonous grimace of a smile on his face.

He made an ironic grimace.

Her face was twisted in a grimace of disgust.

I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace, and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about.

Zeluco considered all this as mere affectation and grimace, and was convinced that she would, in due time, unfold the particular mode in which she wished to be indemnified […].