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glowering

[ US /ˈɡɫaʊɝɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈa‍ʊəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. showing a brooding ill humor
    a sour temper
    a sullen crowd
    a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
    a dark scowl
    the proverbially dour New England Puritan
    a morose and unsociable manner
    he sat in moody silence
    a glum, hopeless shrug

How To Use glowering In A Sentence

  • Both albums relish shimmering percussion tracks and blindingly reflective surface washes, whereas others in the alliance fuzz everything out in a glowering haze.
  • At a quick turn o 'the road they wintled owre; and there they were, sitting on their doups in the atoms o' the gig, and glowering frae them! The House with the Green Shutters
  • He could just have been a sore loser who'd met an opponent coldly invulnerable to his glowering mind games.
  • He sat glowering at his opponent.
  • Beside me Mac stared at the two glowering figures in confusion.
  • The other half quaked, disturbed by the glowering lines of his face, the reproachful glare of his obsidian eyes.
  • It sat glowering at me, upset because half an hour earlier, I had confiscated a small marsupial it had brought in - something between a rat and a bandicoot.
  • Mayhap thou didst sleep over-sound last night when I called by the river bank," he began, glowering darkly. THE MARRIAGE TO LIT-LIT
  • Instead of clamming up or glowering, he sighs and admits he behaved stupidly. Times, Sunday Times
  • On television his glowering and beard-stroking would become monotonous, and wooing the Jewish vote would present a definite obstacle. Why Anthony Eden Never Wore a Coonskin Cap: James Wolcott
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