beetle-browed

ADJECTIVE
  1. sullen or unfriendly in appearance
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How To Use beetle-browed In A Sentence

  • Woodland habitats are destroyed for agriculture or given over to beetle-browed conifers. Times, Sunday Times
  • The apes are adorable, particularly beetle-browed Go-Go. 14 « July « 2009 « The Manga Curmudgeon
  • Slender and sinister: think of Tessio in The Godfather, beetle-browed and suspicious of everything that breathes. Charlie Carillo: Dinner for Two, For One
  • Woodland habitats are destroyed for agriculture or given over to beetle-browed conifers. Times, Sunday Times
  • One of them was finishing a drinking-glass, rolling the pontil on the arms of the working-stool; another, a beetle-browed fellow, swung his long blow-pipe with its lump of glowing glass in a full circle, high in air and almost to touch the ground; another was at a 'bocca' in the low glare; all were busy, and the air was very hot and close. Marietta A Maid of Venice
  • All that has done is provide us with a rich trove of oddball entertainment ranging from Sarah Palin's dithery dead-fish metaphors to the beetle-browed death threats of G. Gordon Liddy and the blatant racism of Pat Buchanan. Summer Rerun
  • My horse, inaptly named Pegasus, brings me to the base of Ahu Tepeu, a magnificent beetle-browed statue crowned with a red stone headdress weighing eleven tons. Richard Bangs: Skullduggery on Easter Island (Part II of II)
  • With the help of a pinch of fossil bone dust, scientists have discovered that modern human beings interbred with Neanderthals tens of thousands of years ago, and that 1 to 4 percent of the genes carried by non-African people are traceable to the much-caricatured, beetle-browed cavemen. Ancient DNA shows interbreeding between Homo sapiens and Neanderthal
  • Except for the narrowness of the porch and the beetle-browed look of the roofline, the building greatly resembled the Underhill house. LOST BOY LOST GIRL
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