12 Verbs to Use for the Word shrugging

His sister gave a shrug.

To this Lanyard added a slight shrug..

" He understood very well her irrepressible shrug of exasperation at that and interrupted her attempt to explain it.

yet I'le vouchsafe him the new Italian shrug How clownishly the Book-worm does return it!

And then a hearty laugh would break, A reassuring shrug of shoulder; And we would from his fancy take A faith in death which made life bolder.

What do you think?" Lanyard indicated a shrug with sufficient clearness, meaning to say, she probably knew as much as if not more than he.

It takes the grittiest kind of perseverance to face such slights, to seem not to see the amused glance, not to hear the sneering comment, not to notice the contemptuous shrug.

But she was not even strong enough to resist the half-contemptuous shrug with which Pertinax thrust her away.

Des Esseintes could not restrain a shrug of the shoulders before these stupid opinions, covered by a borrowed prose whose already worn texture clung or became torn at each phrase.

These two then, soon became intimate, and to have seen their shrugs, significant whisperings, and frequent conferences in corners, one who did not know them, might have fancied their shoulders burthened with the weight of the state.

To say the truth, I had dreaded more Ariana's little shrug, and Geraldine Parker's upraised eyebrows, on reading my marriage, than a whole life of that name, on my own account merely.

Our companion entered with his usual gaiety, and began to partake of our noisy cheerfulness, when the conversation was imperceptibly diverted to a subject which pressed upon his tender part, and extorted the expected shrug, the customary exclamation, or the predicted remark.

12 Verbs to Use for the Word  shrugging