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FROWNING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Showing displeasure or anger
Classified under:
Similar:
displeased (not pleased; experiencing or manifesting displeasure)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb frown
Context examples:
He skirted the frowning shores on rim ice that bent and crackled under foot and upon which they dared not halt.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
I was exceedingly surprised on receiving so rude an answer from a stranger, and I was also disconcerted on perceiving the frowning and angry countenances of his companions.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
From the point the shore curved away, more and more to the south and west, until at last it disclosed a cove within the cove, a little land-locked harbour, the water level as a pond, broken only by tiny ripples where vagrant breaths and wisps of the storm hurtled down from over the frowning wall of rock that backed the beach a hundred feet inshore.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
And while Arthur took up the tale, for the twentieth time, of his adventure with the drunken hoodlums on the ferry-boat and of how Martin Eden had rushed in and rescued him, that individual, with frowning brows, meditated upon the fool he had made of himself, and wrestled more determinedly with the problem of how he should conduct himself toward these people.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
So saying, he quickened his pace, and the three comrades were soon close to the straggling and broad-spread town which centered round the noble church and the frowning castle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are great, frowning precipices and much falling water, and Nature seem to have held sometime her carnival.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
Until he came, my aunt sat perfectly upright and stiff, frowning at the wall.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
It is—that he asks me to be his wife, and has no more of a husband's heart for me than that frowning giant of a rock, down which the stream is foaming in yonder gorge.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
The squire rose and proceeded to the pavilion, where he found the knight seated upon a cushion, with his legs crossed in front of him and a broad ribbon of parchment laid across his knees, over which he was poring with frowning brows and pursed lips.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Soon we were hemmed in with trees, which in places arched right over the roadway till we passed as through a tunnel; and again great frowning rocks guarded us boldly on either side.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
