frowning

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frown

(froun)

intr.v. frowned, frown·ing, frowns

1. To make a facial expression indicating thought or displeasure, as by wrinkling the brow and drawing down the corners of the mouth.

2. To regard something with disapproval or distaste: frowned on the use of so much salt in the food.

A facial expression indicating thought or displeasure; a scowl.

[Middle English frounen, from Old French froigner, to turn up one's nose, from frogne, grimace, of Gaulish origin; akin to Welsh ffroen, nostril, and Old Irish srón, nose.]

frown′er n.

frown′ing·ly adv.

Synonyms: frown, glower, lower¹, scowl
These words mean to make a face expressing displeasure:frowns when he is annoyed; glowered when she was interrupted; lowered at the noisy child; scowled at my suggestion.

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frowning

(ˈfraʊnɪŋ)

adj

1. drawing the brows together and wrinkling the forehead, esp in worry, anger, or concentration

2. disapproving or disliking

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Adj.

frowning - showing displeasure or anger

displeased - not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure

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frowning

[ˈfraʊnɪŋ] ADJ (fig) → ceñudo, amenazador, severo

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frowning

adj face, look, glance, expression → finster; a frowning man → ein finster blickender Mann

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frowning

[ˈfraʊnɪŋ] adj → corrucciato/a

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Dissatisfied with the pacific aspect of a face which had no more than the faintest hint of flaxen eyebrow, together with a pair of amiable blue-gray eyes and round pink cheeks that refused to look formidable, let him frown as he would before the looking-glass (Philip had once told him of a man who had a horseshoe frown, and Tom had tried with all his frowning might to make a horseshoe on his forehead), he had had recourse to that unfailing source of the terrible, burnt cork, and had made himself a pair of black eyebrows that met in a satisfactory manner over his nose, and were matched by a less carefully adjusted blackness about the chin.

Frowning with a double amount of intention, if not of corrugation, he (carefully) drew the sword from its sheath, and pointed it at Maggie.

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Miss Polly rose with frowning face and closely-shut lips.

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After a moment's pause on the threshold, peering towards the window with her near-sighted scowl, as if frowning down some bitter enemy, she suddenly projected herself into the shop.

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Fentolin exclaimed, frowning, "are you the person who removed that key?"

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"There he is!" said Boris, thinking Rostov had said "His Highness," and pointing to the Grand Duke who with his high shoulders and frowning brows stood a hundred paces away from them in his helmet and Horse Guards' jacket, shouting something to a pale, white uniformed Austrian officer.

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