Now, Walter Huston is not of the eyebrow-waving school of cinema actors. He does not go in for moustache-twirling nor nostril-quivering. His is a strong, forceful character. He is not a magazine-cover lad.
Source: wiktionary
Moustache-twirling
Synonyms for "moustache-twirling"
Ranked by relevance and common usage.
Related word relations
OpenGloss and ConceptNet supply richer edges like generalizations, collocations, and derivations.
Related terms
1 entriesSample sentences
4 total sentences available.
And during the final story of the season, The Ultimate Foe, talk about hand-wringing, moustache-twirling, melodramatic villain laughs!
Source: wiktionary
When it comes to accounting, there are four major suitors for the hand of small business. All promise paradise in day-to-day bookkeeping and vow to keep you on the right side ol that moustache-twirling Revenue Canada.
Source: wiktionary
In 1863, Caroline wrote a novel she hoped would support her campaign. In Lost and Saved, Beatrice Brooke elopes with dastardly, moustache-twirling Montagu Treherne.
Source: wiktionary
Keep exploring
Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.