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Glower   /glˈaʊər/   Listen
Glower

verb
(past & past part. glowered; pres. part. glowering)
1.
Look at with a fixed gaze.  Synonym: glare.
2.
Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval.  Synonyms: frown, lour, lower.






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"Glower" Quotes from Famous Books



... quite helpless, a condition that irritated him almost beyond control. He had absolutely no grounds for interference. He could only glower angrily and in silence at a meeting he could not prevent. Conjecture might run riot as to the causes which had given this sinister bend to an idyl, but perforce he must ...
— The Silent Barrier • Louis Tracy

... rosy-cheeked May Pearcey, so silly, so incapable of more than momentary resentment, that she was always forgetting that Sally and she no longer spoke, but was always trying to encourage Sally into a return to their former relation. Sometimes Sally would glower across at May, bitterly hating her and riddling her plumpness and folly with the keen eye of malice. May, unconscious of the scrutiny, would go on with her work, self-satisfied, much coarser and more physical ...
— Coquette • Frank Swinnerton

... Archie, in great wrath. 'Will ye let that freend o' Belzibub rin awa' wid a three hun'red ounces of gold an' dae naethin'? Na, na, ye mauna dae it, I tell ye. Oh, aye, ye may sit there, mem, and glower awa' like a boggle, but ye aren'a gangin' to make yoursel' a martyr for yon. Keep the nugget? I'll see ...
— Madame Midas • Fergus Hume



Words linked to "Glower" :   scowl, frown, stare, grimace, pull a face, lower, glare, make a face



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