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Scowl   /skaʊl/   Listen
noun
Scowl  n.  
1.
The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. "With solemn phiz, and critic scowl."
2.
Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect. "A ruddy storm, whose scowl Made heaven's radiant face look foul."


verb
Scowl  v. t.  
1.
To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
2.
To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.


Scowl  v. i.  (past & past part. scowled; pres. part. scowling)  
1.
To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. "She scowled and frowned with froward countenance."
2.
Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. "The scowling heavens."





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"Scowl" Quotes from Famous Books



... Even the physician's sense of duty did not embolden him to persist under this scowl of the ...
— The Landloper - The Romance Of A Man On Foot • Holman Day
... and the door was thrown open to disclose the belligerent figure of Tony Ricorro, the leader of the Italian colony. Recognizing the reefered figure that smiled up at him through the falling flakes, Tony's dark scowl faded as he reached out his powerful hands and with a joyous shout fairly lifted Terry ...
— Terry - A Tale of the Hill People • Charles Goff Thomson
... once more before the home of the long-suffering, much-laboring, loud-complaining Heraclitus of his time, whose very smile had a grimness in it more ominous than his scowl. Poor man! Dyspeptic on a diet of oatmeal porridge; kept wide awake by crowing cocks; drummed out of his wits by long-continued piano-pounding; sharp of speech, I fear, to his high-strung wife, who gave him back as good as she got! I hope I am mistaken about their ...
— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)
... said one of the seamen, whose fat, amiable face was marred by a fearful scowl, "that we've got a ...
— Many Cargoes • W.W. Jacobs
... in a circle sit crouching; And low is the whisper of leaves and the sough of the wind in the branches; And low is the long-winding howl of the lone wolf afar in the forest; But shrill is the hoot of the owl, like a bugle-blast blown in the pine-tops, And the half-startled voyageurs scowl at the sudden and saucy intruder. Like the eyes of the wolves are the eyes of the watchful and silent Dakotas; Like the face of the moon in the skies, when the clouds chase each other across it, Is Tamdoka's dark face in the light of the flickering ...
— The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems • H. L. Gordon


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