beetle-browed
having heavy projecting eyebrows.
scowling or sullen.
Origin of beetle-browed
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How to use beetle-browed in a sentence
Late that afternoon a beetle-browed and forbidding-looking individual entered Brown's office.
Shadow, the Mysterious Detective | Police Captain HowardHe was an iron-faced, beetle-browed, stern man, and this morning he did not seem to be in the best of tempers.
A Christmas Mystery | William J. LockeWe have often wondered how one university could possibly corner the entire supply of treacherous and beetle-browed humanity.
Pieces of Hate | Heywood BrounIt was a signal, though, for a thick-set beetle-browed young fellow to bounce in from the next room and curtly demand my business.
The Long Day | Dorothy RichardsonI found it without difficulty—a long, low-fronted, beetle-browed farmhouse, lying back a meadow's length from the road.
A Night on the Borders of the Black Forest | Amelia B. Edwards
British Dictionary definitions for beetle-browed
having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
sullen in appearance; scowling
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