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Frown   /fraʊn/   Listen
Frown

noun
1.
A facial expression of dislike or displeasure.  Synonym: scowl.
verb
(past & past part. frowned; pres. part. frowning)
1.
Look angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval.  Synonyms: glower, lour, lower.



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"Frown" Quotes from Famous Books



... far above the regions of the commonplace. Her mind was in a world of ideal beauty. Disturbed by the interruption, a slight frown contracted on her beautiful brows as she arose and took her child by the arm to ...
— Heart-Histories and Life-Pictures • T. S. Arthur

... was a puzzled frown in the eyes back of the thick-lensed glasses. "We haven't much to go on. Wilson doesn't know a thing about it. He hasn't the brain to grasp even the most fundamental ideas back of ...
— Empire • Clifford Donald Simak

... away, an angry frown on his lean, strong face. She gazed at him curiously for a moment and then laid a slim, brown ...
— Penny of Top Hill Trail • Belle Kanaris Maniates

... that it should not interfere with business, and therefore oppose a tariff; that it should not interfere with local government, and therefore applaud states rights; that it should not interfere with slavery, and therefore frown upon militant abolition. Its policy was, to adopt a familiar phrase, one of masterly inactivity. Indeed it may well be called the party of political evasion. It was a huge, loose confederacy of differing political ...
— Abraham Lincoln and the Union - A Chronicle of the Embattled North, Volume 29 In The - Chronicles Of America Series • Nathaniel W. Stephenson

... spread her hands over the primroses, indicatively. "I told you—magic." She wrinkled up her forehead into a worrisome frown. "Let me see; I counted them, up last night, and I have had two hundred and twenty-eight Trustee Days in my life. I have tried about everything else—philosophy, Christianity, optimism, mental sclerosis, and missionary fever; but never magic. Don't ...
— The Primrose Ring • Ruth Sawyer


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