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Scowling   /skˈaʊlɪŋ/   Listen
verb
Scowl  v. t.  
1.
To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
2.
To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.


Scowl  v. i.  (past & past part. scowled; pres. part. scowling)  
1.
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. "She scowled and frowned with froward countenance."
2.
Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. "The scowling heavens."





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"Scowling" Quotes from Famous Books



... to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing through his nose, and no one dared to cross him. On the night before the funeral he was as drunk as ever; and it was shocking, in that house of mourning, to hear him singing away at his ugly old sea-song; but weak as he was, we were all in the fear of death for him, ...
— Treasure Island • Robert Louis Stevenson
... off, and all the rest of the day Whitley felt that he was the mark for many scowling glances, while many whispered words were passed between the gaunt natives as they slouched in and out of the post office. Later, when the loafers had seemingly disappeared, Simpson came, and leaning carelessly against the door post within a few feet of Whitley, said, in a ...
— That Printer of Udell's • Harold Bell Wright
... articles in the car. They said good-by to each other before the train stopped, kissing warmly like real friends. Then Elsie Moss tied a large, dark veil over her hat and well down over her forehead and eyes. It looked as inappropriate for the hot day as the scowling expression she assumed to cloak the dimples was ill suited to her ...
— Elsie Marley, Honey • Joslyn Gray
... on a sweating thoroughbred, came Maharajah Gungadhura Singh just in time to see the back of the carriage as it rumbled in through the gateway and the iron doors clanged behind it. Scowling—altogether too round-shouldered for the martial stock he sprang from—puffy-eyed, and not so regal as overbearing in appearance, he sat for a few minutes stroking his scented beard upward and muttering ...
— Guns of the Gods • Talbot Mundy
... the country are a remarkably well-fed and respectable race, without that scowling, hang-dog look which one has remarked among reverend gentlemen in the neighboring country of France. Their reverences wear buckles to their shoes, light-blue neck-cloths, and huge three-cornered hats in good condition. ...
— Little Travels and Roadside Sketches • William Makepeace Thackeray


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