shrugging in English

verb
1
raise (one's shoulders) slightly and momentarily to express doubt, ignorance, or indifference.
Jimmy looked inquiringly at Pete, who shrugged his shoulders

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1. Shrugging and smiling.

2. Automolite herbivority shrugging worriecow

3. Miguel could picture him turning, shrugging helplessly.

4. Shrugging the collar higher around tingling ears he thought of Carrie.

5. "Where's Dad?" "How should I know?" replied my brother, shrugging.

6. Shrugging off rational assurances, Guy let the warning sensations roll over him.

7. “Where we come from it rains too,” I said, shrugging off his words with a laugh.

8. You would have had them back long after shrugging them off for ever: strong but submissive, insensitive, while abrasively solicitous.

9. If you’re not a kindergarten teacher you might be left shrugging your shoulders if someone asked you to define Cardinality

10. Another turning and the shoulder of the moon came into sight like some magnificent beast surfacing, shrugging droplets From bright Bathic grottoes .

11. A Condescending person’s gestures can include waving away comments, putting up a hand to shush you, or shrugging as if what you said doesn’t matter.

12. Burgeoning energy reserves coupled with economic reform and foreign investment are propelling Kazakhstan into the business big time, and the former Soviet republic is enthusiastically shrugging off its much satirised peasant roots.