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US
/ˈɡɫaʊɝɪŋ/
]
[ UK /ɡlˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈaʊəɹɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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showing a brooding ill humor
a sour temper
a sullen crowd
a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius
a dark scowl
the proverbially dour New England Puritan
a morose and unsociable manner
he sat in moody silence
a glum, hopeless shrug
How To Use glowering In A Sentence
- His cousin sat at the kitchen table, glowering.
- June looks and feels more like February; the iridescent green of the trees and the rampant roses are oddly out of sync with the glowering grey clouds. Times, Sunday Times
- I called to the glowering teenager sitting on our front steps.
- His touch and tone are wonderful, and on the solo pieces his use of percussive sounds, banging chords, glowering bass figures and scampering uptempo lines make him sound like an innovator.
- But that's no 'what I call cannel, "grumbled Davie, glowering fiercely at the burning coal, as if meditating a fresh attack. Corporal Cameron of the North West Mounted Police; a tale of the Macleod trail
- He considered her, glowering in the plain, short-sleeved dimity gown Weltrude had allowed her. SOMEDAY MY PRINCE
- The result of this imbalance is to frustrate the natural desire of the human psyche, thereby placing the individual in a perpetual state of angst and glowering fury.
- I followed Mundin into the shed, turning every so often and glowering at Fifi, who trailed behind us.
- On the Monday after the April Gold Cup, Gypsy Joe surveyed the glowering faces of his two long-term jockeys as they drove into his stable-yard for the morning exercise and training session. The Elvis Latte
- So we sit like global sport's great harrumphing, cobwebbed mother-in-law, glowering with assumed entitlement, craving only a sense of triumphant, spoiling vindication. Now England have won the Ashes, it's time to focus on being liked | Barney Ronay