moustache-twirling
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.63 in modern English
28
Scrabble Score
17
Letters
3
Syllables
15
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
An instance of twirling one's moustache.
Example Sentences
- "Now, Walter Huston is not of the eyebrow-waving school of cinema actors. He does not go in for moustache-twirling nor nostril-quivering. His is a strong, forceful character. He is not a magazine-cover lad."
- "And during the final story of the season, The Ultimate Foe, talk about hand-wringing, moustache-twirling, melodramatic villain laughs!"
- "When it comes to accounting, there are four major suitors for the hand of small business. All promise paradise in day-to-day bookkeeping and vow to keep you on the right side ol that moustache-twirling Revenue Canada."
- "In 1863, Caroline wrote a novel she hoped would support her campaign. In Lost and Saved, Beatrice Brooke elopes with dastardly, moustache-twirling Montagu Treherne."
Etymology
Usage
Inflected Forms
moustache-twirlings (plural)
mustache twirling (alternative)
mustache-twirling (alternative)
moustache twirling (alternative)