facecrime means A facial expression considered unacceptable. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 90 out of 100.
Why this word is great
FACECRIME — [Noun] A facial expression considered unacceptable, especially one that inadvertently reveals politically dissident or unorthodox thoughts. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 from the English words 'face' and 'crime' as part of the fictional Newspeak lexicon in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. Unlike “thoughtcrime” (the private, internal transgression) or “microexpression” (a clinically neutral term for fleeting emotional leakage), facecrime is the perilous public evidence, the involuntary emissary of a forbidden inner life. It is the flicker of contempt at a Party slogan, the unguarded tenderness for a forbidden love, or the impossible-to-suppress pallor at a victory announcement—the body’s tragic mutiny, where the privacy of one’s own skin becomes a sphere of potential condemnation.
noun
- A facial expression considered unacceptable.“It's getting hard to keep track of all the blue-check marks who called for the death of these kids.”