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frowning

adjective as in scowling

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It features cereal forming the shape of a frowning face in a bowl of milk and asks if your child has “got autism?”

During the ride, Jai Johany plays lacy Afro jazz on a cassette machine, frowning, saying nothing.

“She was shot on her head, and the brain was outside,” Adin said, his arms folded, frowning.

He looked down at his podium, which meant that the audience saw closed eyes and a frowning mouth.

The girl next to me sat, frowning, before her Bloomberg screen.

With beating heart, but steady hand and frowning eye, he advanced another step and found—that the object was a yellow stone!

Something seemed to puzzle him, for he was frowning, but by and by the old cynical smile came back.

Ward, panic stricken and terrified, looked up at Mr. Peck, who stood frowning down at the pair.

But Walter Harkness, standing at the window, stared out from troubled, frowning eyes that saw nothing of the kaleidoscopic scene.

She stood thinking, her fine face, so open-browed and purely lined, frowning and distressed.

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On this page you'll find 14 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to frowning, such as: glowering, grim, irritable, and sulky.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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