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- adverb With a
grimace .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Madeira's face clouded over, and he thrust out his jaw grimacingly.
Sally of Missouri 1905
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He went and shook hands with a lady who was passing and smiled grimacingly.
Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House Romain Rolland 1905
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By every Merriam Webster definition, and from my life experience, I have learned that the word, and practice of, tolerance evokes a relational condescension: In my superiority, I will magnanimously, albeit grimacingly, endure your inferiority; the greater me will indulge the lesser you; my more excellent self will graciously allow substandard you to breath the same air.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories by Jan Losh 2010
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By every Merriam Webster definition, and from my life experience, I have learned that the word, and practice of, tolerance evokes a relational condescension: In my superiority, I will magnanimously, albeit grimacingly, endure your inferiority; the greater me will indulge the lesser you; my more excellent self will graciously allow substandard you to breath the same air.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories by Jan Losh 2010
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By every Merriam Webster definition, and from my life experience, I have learned that the word, and practice of, tolerance evokes a relational condescension: In my superiority, I will magnanimously, albeit grimacingly, endure your inferiority; the greater me will indulge the lesser you; my more excellent self will graciously allow substandard you to breath the same air.
Summit Daily News - Top Stories by Jan Losh 2010
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