pantomime
noun
the art or technique of conveying emotions, actions, feelings, etc., by gestures without speech.
pantomimically
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a word derived from
pantomime.
Example Sentences
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They repeated their dance and then knocked at the door of the nearest house and begged pantomimically for money, but as it was washing day they were refused.
From The Zankiwank and The Bletherwitch An Original Fantastic Fairy Extravaganza by S. J. Adair Fitzgerald
In the Mass we have a dramatic action pantomimically presented, in part aided by lyrical and epical elements.
From A History of Pantomime by R. J. Broadbent
No, I cry your pardon, I was forgetting the spectacles—a pantomimically large pair of azure barnacles, which came in partly to temper what was rather too fierce in the bearing of our hero.
From Tartarin of Tarascon by Alphonse Daudet
Hitherto the scene between the Spectre and the traveller had been played pantomimically; the action now became dramatic.
From Translations from the German (Vol 3 of 3) Tales by Musaeus, Tieck, Richter by Thomas Carlyle
The officer takes my passport to the yamen, and ere leaving the room, pantomimically advises me to go to sleep again.
From Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama by Thomas Stevens
