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UK
/skˈaʊl/
]
[ US /ˈskaʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈskaʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
- a facial expression of dislike or displeasure
VERB
- frown with displeasure
How To Use scowl In A Sentence
- He let his face resume a scowl.
- He scowled at Zilla, whose withered lips were again writhing into speech, and compelled her to silence. The White Man's Way
- Then another one suddenly moved toward me, scowling, and waved at me to stop.
- Moroni queried, scowling with disappointment, feeling his excitement recede. FINAL RESORT
- ‘No’ she said sharply ‘but there is no reason for me to talk to brainless dimwits like you, I am after all your prisoner’ she said, and she scowled.
- A big stand of grain bins; they are scowling at the wind, each of them.
- He lay there while Afanasy, gloomy and scowling, hovered about him, sighing heavily, and smelling like a pothouse. The Wife
- The frown on the bachelor's face was deepening to a scowl.
- The mention of his name caused the woman to scowl quite belligerently, and the dog gave another low growl. Not So Innocent
- Richard Kay, like Nigel Dempster before him, is paid to write a diary about moneyed toffs like David and Sam so that humbler tube-travelling folk can goggle a bit and scowl at their youngers and betters. Tory press defenders of Middle England rail against the toffs