made faces
Contorted one's visage
Made faces describes deliberately contorting one's facial features, usually to express displeasure, mockery, or playful silliness.
Children commonly make faces at each other or at adults they're trying to annoy.
The phrase often implies exaggerated or comical expressions rather than subtle ones.
She made faces behind the teacher's back.
The baby made faces when we tried to feed him spinach.
- grimacedMade a pained face
- reactedShowed a response
- mimickedCopied another's actions
- frownedShowed facial disapproval
- pantomimedCommunicated through silent gesture
gestured · teased · mugged · portrayed · pouted · caricatured · smiled · sneered · winced · clowned · smirked · signaled · contorted · parodied · dramatized · glared · jested · impersonated