Sullen or unfriendly in appearance.
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Examples for "scowling "
Examples for "scowling "
1 At the parsonage the young minister still sat scowling in his study.
2 Gareth finally reached the top step, scowling as he mentally cursed Society.
3 She was scowling , as if she actually believed what Amos was saying.
4 The lady started and flung a conscience-stricken glance at the scowling cup-bearer.
5 Brad, however, stood scowling , his shoulders tensed, his hands clenched into fists.
1 They were followed by about ten dark, beetle - browed males, who carried guitars.
2 And she points to a beetle - browed citizen with an unshaven face.
3 He is a thick-set, beetle - browed man, with a well-to-do-in-the-world air of pious stolidity.
4 The house is two stories high, with a sort of beetle - browed roof in front.
5 Florid and beetle - browed , its driver stared at me:
6 Mr. Haight was tall and bent and beetle-browed .
7 I felt like a beetle - browed brute with a dripping knife and hands imbrued with innocent gore.
8 The rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle - browed ogress of a wife.
9 He has become a beetle - browed , sullen, slouching ruffian.
10 Another was a black-bearded, beetle - browed , hang-dog looking rascal.
11 The other was a middle-sized, powerful fellow, clean shaven and beetle - browed , and dressed in shabby, ill-fitting garments.
12 Any court would show mercy under the circumstances.' He did not look at the big, beetle - browed mate.
13 Tom Tozer was a bull-necked, beetle - browed fellow, the expression of whose face was eloquent with acknowledged roguery.
14 Shaggy, beetle - browed and unshaven, his looks were anything but pleasing to those who did not fully know him.
15 There we were, surrounded by a roomful of candidates as hairy and beetle - browed as you could wish to see.
16 This heavy, beetle - browed ruffian, who has grown old in sin, and whose appetite increases with his years, is Polichinelle.
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Beetle-browed through the time