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BEETLE-BROWED
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Dictionary entry overview: What does beetle-browed mean?
• BEETLE-BROWED (adjective)
The adjective BEETLE-BROWED has 1 sense:
1. sullen or unfriendly in appearance
Familiarity information: BEETLE-BROWED used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Sullen or unfriendly in appearance
Synonyms:
beetle-browed; scowling
Similar:
unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)
Context examples
Across all the years how clearly I can see that spring day, with the green English fields, the windy English sky, and the yellow, beetle-browed cottage in which I had grown from a child to a man.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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