Raise shoulders

[Robbadob]

What do you call when someone raises their shoulders in indifference? Shrug?

 

[Tarheel]

Re: Lifts shoulders

What do you call it when someone lifts their shoulders in indifference?

Shrugs?

 

[GoesStation]

It's a shrug.

 

[jutfrank]

The verb is to shrug.

 

[emsr2d2]

And the noun is "a shrug".

 

[Robbadob]

Is my sentence correct?
Recent news of presumable money laundering at Caesars Palace, provoked little more than a dismissive shrug of shoulders.

 

[GoesStation]

Is my sentence correct?
Recent news of presumable money laundering at Caesars Palace [no comma] provoked little more than a dismissive shrug [STRIKE]of shoulders[/STRIKE].

It is now.

 

[Tdol]

What do you mean by presumable?

 

[Robbadob]

Is it the wrong word here? How about "possible"?

 

[Yankee]

What do you call when someone raises their shoulders in indifference? Shrug?

The action is shrugging.

 

[Robbadob]

Do these work?
1. Recent news of alleged money laundering at Caesars Palace provoked little more than a dismissive shrug.
2. Recent news of what is presumably money laundering at Caesars Palace provoked little more than a dismissive shrug.

Not a teacher

 

[tedmc]

No.1 sounds better. No.2 is wordy but not wrong.

 

[emsr2d2]

There is a difference between "alleged money laundering" and "what is presumably money laundering".

 

[Tdol]

Is it the wrong word here? How about "possible"?

That works perfectly.

 

[Tarheel]

Do these work?
1. Recent news of alleged money laundering at Caesars Palace provoked little more than a dismissive shrug.
2. Recent news of what is presumably money laundering at Caesars Palace provoked little more than a dismissive shrug.

Not a teacher

They're OK. (The place where I would most expect to see them (especially the first one) would, in fact, be a news article.