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US
/ˈɡɫaʊɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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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