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glowering

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glow·er  (glour)
intr.v. glow·ered, glow·er·ing, glow·ers
To look or stare angrily or sullenly. See Synonyms at frown.
n.
An angry or sullen look or stare.

[Middle English gloren, probably of Scandinavian origin; see ghel-2 in Indo-European roots.]

glower·ing·ly adv.
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Adj.1.glowering - showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
ill-natured - having an irritable and unpleasant disposition

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"Teh hell wid him and you," she said, glowering at her daughter in the gloom.
He turned his hat round and round in his hand, his uncle glowering blacker and blacker upon him as the heavy seconds drifted by; then at last he began to stammer, and said piteously:
With glowering eyes Gogoomy looked on while Sheldon took from the tin a hundred rounds each for the two Winchesters and fully as many rounds more of nondescript cartridges of all sorts and makes and calibres.
 
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