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Grimace vs Grimacingly - What's the difference?

grimace | grimacingly |

As a verb grimace

is .

As an adverb grimacingly is

with a grimace.

grimace

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A distortion of the countenance, whether habitual, from affectation, or momentary and occasional, to express some feeling, as contempt, disapprobation, complacency, etc.; a smirk; a made-up face.
  • * "I trundle off to bed, eyes brimming, face twisted into a grateful glistening grimace , and awaken the next day wondering what all the fuss was about." — Opera News , March 2005

    • Verb

    (grimac)
  • To make grimaces; to distort one's face; to make faces.

    • grimacingly

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • With a grimace.