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Glower   /glˈaʊər/   Listen
Glower

noun
1.
An angry stare.  Synonym: glare.
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



... would steal on the pair, if possible, unawares, and interrupt, without the least reserve, any billing and cooing which might be going on, sending the delinquent daughter to her work, and giving a glower at the swain, which she expected might be sufficient to deter him from similar ...
— The Kellys and the O'Kellys • Anthony Trollope

... encounter; must recapitulate all my wrongs. I have them noted down severally as they occurred! I need but read to rage! What do I talk?—Read?—Can I forget them? No; night nor day! They are my familiars. They wake with me, sleep with me, walk with me, ride with me, glower with me, curse with me—but never smile with me. They are become my dearest intimates. I cherish and hug them to my heart! Their biting is my ...
— Anna St. Ives • Thomas Holcroft

... grumbled Elfreda. "I don't want to think about my 'real life' or any other solemn old subject. There's a time to reflect, but this isn't the time. I'd rather save all my harrowing reflections until just before commencement. Then we might give a misery party and invite our friends to glower and gloom with us." ...
— Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower

... it was Alan's turn to glower. She had not looked at his roses, had not cared to look for his message; but she carried the other man's card, used it as a talisman. And she was glad. The other was there, but she had forbidden himself—Alan Massey—to come, had even ...
— Wild Wings - A Romance of Youth • Margaret Rebecca Piper

... help but realize at first glance Mr. Tutt's warmth of heart. The lines of his sunken cheeks if left to themselves automatically tended to draw together into a whimsical smile, and it required a positive act of will upon his part to adopt the stern and relentless look with which he was wont to glower down upon ...
— Tutt and Mr. Tutt • Arthur Train


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