scowl
verb (used without object)
to draw down or contract the brows in a sullen, displeased, or angry manner.
scowlingly
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a word derived from
scowl.
Example Sentences
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Competing with Don for Megan’s love, Sally argues that she was friends with her first, and scowlingly demanding that Megan not betray her secrets to Don.
From Salon ● May 21, 2012
Colonel General Terenty Shtykov, the Soviet negotiator, had scowlingly refused even to discuss the issue of removal of machinery from Korea.
From Time Magazine Archive
They made camp again in the same spot, and were up before daylight for the last stage, Mills looking scowlingly at the sky.
From Boy Scouts in Glacier Park The Adventures of Two Young Easterners in the Heart of the High Rockies by Walter Prichard Eaton
Apparently ignoring everything that he had said, she turned her face scowlingly toward the sound of hammering that issued suddenly through the piazza door.
From The Sick-a-Bed Lady And Also Hickory Dock, The Very Tired Girl, The Happy-Day, Something That Happened in October, The Amateur Lover, Heart of The City, The Pink Sash, Woman's Only Business by Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
I was not enlightened about their object, till I saw the face of Francisco Moreno behind the half-opened door, scowlingly confronting them!
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Mayne Reid
