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GLOWERING
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Dictionary entry overview: What does glowering mean?
• GLOWERING (adjective)
The adjective GLOWERING has 1 sense:
1. showing a brooding ill humor
Familiarity information: GLOWERING used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing a brooding ill humor
Synonyms:
dark; dour; glowering; glum; moody; morose; saturnine; sour; sullen
Context example:
a sullen crowd
Similar:
ill-natured (having an irritable and unpleasant disposition)
Context examples
He pointed to Uriah, pale and glowering in a corner, evidently very much out in his calculations, and taken by surprise.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Had he merely stood over the meat, head up and glowering, White Fang would ultimately have slunk away.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
A moment later he emerged, a heavy-set young fellow of eighteen or nineteen, with a glowering, villainous countenance, trailing at his heels.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
In due time I heard the church-bells ringing, as I plodded on; and I met people who were going to church; and I passed a church or two where the congregation were inside, and the sound of singing came out into the sunshine, while the beadle sat and cooled himself in the shade of the porch, or stood beneath the yew-tree, with his hand to his forehead, glowering at me going by.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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