This is fine, as far as it goes, but most critique groups land squarely on me for using ANY form of “he looked wolfish” or “he grinned wolfishly” (which is, admittedly, an adverb).
Francisco Luciano Fernandes on Janu2:32 pmĬould you please tell those words that spell the kind of smells are there in the vocabulary?. I just wanted to tell you something: why don’t you put Google + buttons so I can +1 your articles? I don’t have Twitter or Facebook and I want to show my appreciation. I read your blog on a regular basis because I’m a writer as well. 20 Names of Body Parts and Elements and Their Figurative Meaningsġ8 Responses to “100 Words for Facial Expressions”. Top 11 Writing Apps for iOS (iPhone and iPad). Want to improve your English in five minutes a day? Get a subscription and start receiving our writing tips and exercises daily! Keep learning! Browse the Vocabulary category, check our popular posts, or choose a related post below: Wry: twisted or crooked to express cleverness or a dark or ironic feeling Withering: devastating see also wrathfulġ00. Wild eyed: excited, frightened, or stressfulĩ5. Sly: cunning see also furtive and mischievousĩ4. Pleading: seeking apology or assistanceħ4. Pained: affected with discomfort or painĦ2. Mischievous: annoyingly or maliciously playfulĥ6. Meaningful: to convey an implicit connotation or shared secretĥ4. Leering: see meaningful also, sexually suggestiveĥ2. Hunted: tense as if worried about pursuitĥ1. Hostile: aggressively angry, intimidating, or resistantĤ6. Hopeless: depressed by a lack of encouragement or optimismĤ5. Haunted: frightened, worried, or guiltyĤ4. Grave: serious, expressing emotion due to loss or sadnessĤ3. Grim: see despondent also, fatalistic or pessimisticĤ2. Glazed: expressionless due to fatigue or confusionĤ1. Glancing: staring briefly as if curious but evasiveģ7. Faint: cowardly, weak, or barely perceptibleģ5. 
Dreamy: distracted by daydreaming or fantasizingģ1. Dour: stern or obstinate see also despondentĢ8. Deadpan: expressionless, to conceal emotion or heighten humorĢ6. Darkly: with depressed or malevolent feelingsĢ1. Blithe: carefree, lighthearted, or heedlessly indifferentġ4. Blissful: showing a state of happiness or divine contentmentġ1. Blinking: surprise, or lack of concernġ0. Appealing: attractive, in the sense of encouraging goodwill and/or interestĩ. Alluring: attractive, in the sense of arousing desireĤ.
First try conveying emotions indirectly or through dialogue, but if you must fall back on a descriptive term, try for precision:ģ.
100 Words for Facial Expressions By Mark Nicholįace it - sometimes you must give your readers a countenance-based clue about what a character or a subject is feeling.
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