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Beetle-browed   /bˈitəl-braʊd/   Listen
Beetle-browed

adjective
1.
Sullen or unfriendly in appearance.  Synonym: scowling.





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... to hear JOSEPH JOHN GURNEY, one of the most distinguished and influential, it is said, of the English Quakers. He is a thick-set, beetle-browed man, with a well-to-do-in-the-world air of pious stolidity. I was grievously disappointed; for Quakerism has at times looked lovely to me, and I had expected at least a spiritual exposition of its doctrines ...
— Memoirs of Margaret Fuller Ossoli, Vol. I • Margaret Fuller Ossoli
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... Lady Ashton had seen this," was his internal reflection; "no man knows so well as Bittlebrains on which side his bread is buttered; and he fawns on the Master like a beggar's messan on a cook. And my lady, too, bringing forward her beetle-browed misses to skirl and play upon the virginals, as if she said, 'Pick and choose.' They are no more comparable to Lucy than an owl is to a cygnet, and so they may carry their black ...
— Bride of Lammermoor • Sir Walter Scott
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Words linked to "Beetle-browed" :   scowling, unfriendly


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