scowling
present participle ofscowl
scowl
verb[I]
uk/skaʊl/us/skaʊl/tolookat someone or something with a veryannoyedexpression:
Theboyscowledather andreluctantlyfollowedher back intoschool.
Grimacing and frowning
- bitchy resting face
- cloud
- curl
- death stare
- evil
- frown
- furrow
- glare
- if looks could kill...idiom
- knit
- knityourbrow/browsidiom
- look daggers atsomeoneidiom
- pout
- purse
- roll
- scowl
- screw
- scrunch
- sneer
- someone'sface fallsidiom
Examplesofscowling
scowling
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
A serious,scowlingand disproportionately large face sits uneasily on his diminutive body.
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Ascowlingpolice officer points to the posted picture of what to do.
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No amount of yowling andscowlingwill get over that fact.
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But if the picket consisted of a large number of menscowlingand looking threatening, that undoubtedly would be a form of intimidation.
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If they had, we should have beenscowlingat each other instead of smiling.
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We must have a feeling of happiness in all branches of industry so that when walking through a factory we see happy people and notscowlingfaces.
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Men with piercing eyesscowlingat women.
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I am asked to stopscowling.
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Will there be any pleasure in it or will life be unhappy for us all when we see people coming into the officescowlingand threatening us?
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It is no good hisscowling.
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Examples of emotional expression are facial movements such as smiling orscowling, or behaviors like crying or laughing.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Devine was prepared to gamble on this play because he saw in it a ferocious andscowlingarticulation of a new post-war spirit.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.He is often portrayed as ascowlingdrunkard, which is historically inaccurate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The term has the meaning of one being crestfallen, depressed, despondent, downcast, gloomy, sullen and evidently frowning,scowling.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Zarrin is lying in some greenery outside,scowling.
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