The act of turning your head left and right to signify denial or disbelief or bemusement

Usage examples of headshake.

Chalaine answered with a headshake, sipping at the last of her coffee.

Then, with a small headshake, a silent personal order, he determinedly distanced himself from the anger.

Reventlo gave a faint headshake and wink, jerking his thumb toward the aft cabin.

Bulaboldo had awakened when their voices rose, and his headshake was superior and pitying.

His fondly exasperated headshake scarcely enlightened her as to how to interpret this cryptic remark.

She rejected one after another with a grimace here, a headshake there.

A tiny headshake from Nevrat told Scaurus he did not knownot, really, that there was much to know.

She could understand the negative by the headshaking, but not anything else.

He arched his brows, whether in surprise or sardonicism, till she gave him a tiny frown and headshake.

There was something in the piolence of his headshaking that was close to horror.

So with one thoughtful headshake downward, toward where Copps Burying Ground would be, he brought the "Endurance" about and, taking advantage of the outgoing tide, set sail out of Boston's North End for the open sea.

Now she watched as the argument progressed, with handwaving and headshaking and—by the expressions—raised voices.

Larry talked fast in Russian and twice Ashton nodded, but Benson made interjections, each time accompanied by a headshake, and tried to get Ashton away.

She was ticking off all this like an executive secretary, but at his headshake she stopped and grinned.