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Meanings of rictus in English

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Usage of rictus in English
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She was smiling, but it was a rictus of pain and horror.
The stand
2
Barlow's grin of triumph was instantly transformed into a rictus of agony.
Salem’s Lot
3
The black blade rose; narrow lips peeled back in a rictus snarl.
To the blight: the eye of the world
4
A rictus of cruel malignity lit up greyly their old bony faces.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
5
He could feel the smile, a rictus he could not control.
Summer of Night
6
The quick rictus of a smile, gone just as suddenly as it appeared.
Return of the Crimson Guard
7
It was pulled up at the corners in a ghastly rictus.
Anansi Boys
8
Grange made a little rictus and looked out the window at the fog.
Quantico
9
Stopped and leered, his head craned forward, that ghastly rictus on his mouth.
Darkness and Dawn
10
As he raised his eyes, his features pinched into a rictus of loathing.
Serena
11
His eyes are sunken mirrors of pain, his smile a rictus.
The Hyperion Cantos
12
He stepped forward, his teeth clenched and his face a rictus of terror.
The Queen of Bedlam
13
She strained, her face tortured in a rictus of concentrated pain.
Mine
14
Risa's face, drawn back in a rictus of pain and shock.
Relic of the Dawn
15
She gave a rictus of a smile and shook her head.
Sovereign
16
Earl Van Diver was behind the wheel, his face a grinning, terrible rictus.
Mine
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