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Rictal

Rictal \Ric"tal\, a. (Zo["o]l.) Of or pertaining to the rictus; as, rictal bristles.

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rictal

a. possessing the qualities of a rictus

Usage examples of "rictal".

The slack lips jerked upward as if pulled by hooks and strings until a rictal grimace showed a wide expanse of teeth in a terrible simulation of a smile.

He bugged his eyes and gaped his mouth until it looked like the rictal cavern of a hungry young bird.

His pointy cheekbones and chin seemed more prominent in the presence of the tight rictal smile he gave the paparazzi.

He jammed a chair under the doorknob and shot himself up with enough heroin to blow the heart out of a draft horse, his mouth rictal when the rush took him.

Dale lying in bed, head rocked loosely back, eyes staring at nothing, a line of thin spittle trickling from his open mouth, while the banshee stood beside him, her rictal smile greedy upon her face.

I feel the frozen skin of my cheeks stretching under my thermal mask as I grin idiotically, a rictal grimace of terror and the sheer joy of mindless speed, my arms and hands adjusting constantly, automatically, instantly to changes in the ice-axe tiller and the ice-hammer brake.