beetle-browed

[ beet-l-broud ]

/ ˈbit lˌbraʊd /

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adjective

having heavy projecting eyebrows.

scowling or sullen.

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Origin of beetle-browed

1325–75; Middle English bitel-browed, probably with bitel sharp(-edged), Old English *bitel (see beetle¹); see brow, -ed³

Words nearby beetle-browed

beetfly, Beethoven, Beethoven, Ludwig van, beetle, beet leafhopper, beetle-browed, beetlebung, beetle drive, beetlehead, beetleweed, Beeton

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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 Howard
He 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. Locke
We have often wondered how one university could possibly corner the entire supply of treacherous and beetle-browed humanity.
Pieces of Hate|Heywood Broun
It 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 Richardson

I 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

beetle-browed

adjective

having bushy or overhanging eyebrows

sullen in appearance; scowling

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