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frowned

  • past participle of frown.
  • past tense form of frown.

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“A profit? Well, you didn’t net one,” Frowned my broker.

From Washington Post • Oct. 17, 2019

And if there’s one thing you don’t want to be, it’s Frowned Upon by the tennis authorities.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2015

And if there’s one thing you don’t want to be, it’s Frowned Upon by the tennis authorities.

From The Guardian • Jun. 29, 2015

Frowned also the perpetually lowering busts of the chief Roman Emperors which stand on pedestals about the new Caesar's office.

From Time Magazine Archive

Our mothers looked on at the dancing—that was their business then; Frowned on the detrimentals, smiled on the right young men.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 4, 1914 by Seaman, Owen, Sir