Translations for „rictus“ in the English » German Dictionary

ric·tus <pl -es> [ˈrɪktəs] N

rictus

[Gesichts]verzerrung f

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English

A rictus smile was the best he could do.

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Fire has destroyed most of his features, leaving behind a skeletal face, fixed in a final rictus.

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The glazed look had taken on a rictus-like quality.

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Brown agreed and fixed his rictus grin for the passenger, who duly snapped away.

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When one journalist entered the room, the children, ages 4 or 5, turned around with rictus grins and bowed, singing all the while.

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With his bulbous nose, perpendicular ears and rictus grin, he makes for an unlikely-looking business trailblazer.

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The cameras were only interested in the reaction of one man, perspiring and rictus-grinned in the crowd behind them.

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His face is contorted in a rictus of agony.

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Meanwhile, you shape your mouth into a fearsome rictus.

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His mouth is pulled into a sharp-toothed rictus.

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