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How to pronounce moue in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms pout, wry face
Type of face, grimace

Examples of moue

moue
She rarely lowers her strangled-cat vibrato, or varies her frowning, lip-quivering moue.
From the independent.co.uk
Yet with a tiny moue he transforms the sow's-ear peasant into a silken, purse-lipped aristocrat.
From the time.com
The wan expression on him-that moue, the oval mouth, sad eyes.
From the nytimes.com
The onetime Irma la Douce used to toss off a mean moue herself.
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He spent the next ten minutes crossing and uncrossing his legs, Kenny Everett-style, a moue on his chops.
From the thisismoney.co.uk
A lifetime of showbiz savvy backed up each move and moue.
From the time.com
Catia submitted to his embrace but turned her cheek away, pursing her lips in a foreboding moue of lip gloss and recrimination.
From the nytimes.com
She can sing effortlessly, make a mug or a moue with equal facility, throw away a line and reel it back in with the best-when she is given half a chance.
From the time.com
In one to two weeks after strokes in the right side of the moue brain, the left side of the brain rearranged its neural circuits actively.
From the sciencedaily.com
In it, the 1980s-era mannequin Dalma is seen sauntering the catwalk at a Lacroix show, pausing, posing, cocking her head, twirling, making a moue.
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More examples
  • Pout: a disdainful grimace
  • A facial expression results from one or more motions or positions of the muscles of the face. These movements convey the emotional state of the individual to observers. Facial expressions are a form of nonverbal communication. ...
  • A pout, especially as expressing mock-annoyance or flirtatiousness. [from 19th c.]
  • (French) "a pouting grimace"; a wry face.