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Definition of rictus in English: rictusnoun ˈrɪktəsˈrɪktəs A fixed grimace or grin. 龇牙咧嘴 their faces were each frozen in a terrified rictus Example sentencesExamples - Behind the rictus grin, Winkelman must be terrified.
- But the smile of the suicide bomber has as much to do with the source of true humour and laughter as the enforced rictus that accompanies the ritual incantation of ‘Have a nice day’ in the supermarket checkout.
- Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement.
- Having achieved the single most sinister moment on television this year, Gordon bares his teeth, flares his nostrils and pulls his face back into a rictus of a smile.
- He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile.
- These girls were laughing around me and I was laughing too but it was a rictus smile.
- The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.
- David Whitton apparently had to massage Jack's face afterwards to help him get rid of the rictus smile he'd been wearing all morning.
- There is a moment during a honeymoon visit to Kinsey's dreadful parents when the young professor is laughing with his wife about his father's idiocies, and suddenly Neeson turns his laugh into a rictus of pain.
- I felt my lips tighten in a rictus that was closer to a grimace than a smile.
- Jack used to stand there in agony, a rictus grin on his face, doing his level best to disappear up his own dinner jacket.
- I watched the head waiter stand over the only other inhabited table for 20 minutes, explaining some arcane byway of his art with an expansive warmth, while the couple stared up at him with rictus grins and hollow, screaming eyes.
- Despite himself, Padlin looked at the corpse's mouth, his gaze fastening for an unpleasant instant on the rictus leer stretching the dead lips.
- At home his face is an opaque, expressionless void; at work his mouth is frozen into a terrible, ingratiating rictus of a smile.
- But once you've got the joke, it becomes repetitive and, despite the presence of seemingly every comic actor from Leslie Phillips to Mackenzie Crook, laughter is replaced by a rictus grin.
- From the fearful rictus his mouth forms, I know I've spoken the nameless question he has dreaded.
- Watching Mima's personality collapse is heart-rending and compelling: she gets to a point where she doesn't know where she ends and the construct - the rictus smile, the perkiness - begins.
- The format is familiar to students of programmes that are so bad they are almost good: his and hers presenters, faces set in a perpetual rictus of forced bonhomie, marooned on a couch in trash-television hell.
- One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
- Ramirez smiled then, a terrible rictus with more than a hint of malice.
Derivativesadjective It also has a tiny beak with a large gape, surrounded by stiff feathers called rictal bristles, which help the bird catch its aerial prey. Example sentencesExamples - Of those, two were skeletal, seven were based on plumage or soft-part colors, and five dealt with tarsal scutellations, rictal bristles, and egg color.
- The bare interramal skin is dusky, and visible rictal bristles are absent.
- Myiobius also has the long rictal bristles and erythrurus has the rufous tail found in Onychorhynchus and Cnipodectes.
- Incongruously, Myrmothera was separated from Grallaria and Thamnocharis on the basis of the absence of rictal bristles; but Hylopezus, which also lacks rictal bristles, was included in Grallaria.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Latin, literally 'open mouth', from rict- 'gaped', from the verb ringi. Definition of rictus in US English: rictusnounˈrɪktəsˈriktəs A fixed grimace or grin. 龇牙咧嘴 Ned's smile had become a rictus of repulsion Example sentencesExamples - The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.
- I watched the head waiter stand over the only other inhabited table for 20 minutes, explaining some arcane byway of his art with an expansive warmth, while the couple stared up at him with rictus grins and hollow, screaming eyes.
- Ramirez smiled then, a terrible rictus with more than a hint of malice.
- But the smile of the suicide bomber has as much to do with the source of true humour and laughter as the enforced rictus that accompanies the ritual incantation of ‘Have a nice day’ in the supermarket checkout.
- But once you've got the joke, it becomes repetitive and, despite the presence of seemingly every comic actor from Leslie Phillips to Mackenzie Crook, laughter is replaced by a rictus grin.
- David Whitton apparently had to massage Jack's face afterwards to help him get rid of the rictus smile he'd been wearing all morning.
- The format is familiar to students of programmes that are so bad they are almost good: his and hers presenters, faces set in a perpetual rictus of forced bonhomie, marooned on a couch in trash-television hell.
- Having achieved the single most sinister moment on television this year, Gordon bares his teeth, flares his nostrils and pulls his face back into a rictus of a smile.
- I felt my lips tighten in a rictus that was closer to a grimace than a smile.
- One young acolyte has such a rictus from grinning at his master's jokes that it looks like a physical affliction.
- At home his face is an opaque, expressionless void; at work his mouth is frozen into a terrible, ingratiating rictus of a smile.
- Despite himself, Padlin looked at the corpse's mouth, his gaze fastening for an unpleasant instant on the rictus leer stretching the dead lips.
- These girls were laughing around me and I was laughing too but it was a rictus smile.
- From the fearful rictus his mouth forms, I know I've spoken the nameless question he has dreaded.
- Jack used to stand there in agony, a rictus grin on his face, doing his level best to disappear up his own dinner jacket.
- Watching Mima's personality collapse is heart-rending and compelling: she gets to a point where she doesn't know where she ends and the construct - the rictus smile, the perkiness - begins.
- Enrique's face is twisted into a rictus grin, and he lets out the unmistakable chortle of sheer psychotic derangement.
- Behind the rictus grin, Winkelman must be terrified.
- There is a moment during a honeymoon visit to Kinsey's dreadful parents when the young professor is laughing with his wife about his father's idiocies, and suddenly Neeson turns his laugh into a rictus of pain.
- He wiped the spittle away, his lips twisted in a rictus halfway between a snarl and a smile.
OriginEarly 19th century: from Latin, literally ‘open mouth’, from rict- ‘gaped’, from the verb ringi. |