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In a dour mood
Answer for the clue "In a dour mood ", 8 letters:
frowning
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Word definitions for frowning in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The act of giving a frown. vb. (present participle of frown English)
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Frown \Frown\ (froun), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Frowned (fround); p. pr. & vb. n. Frowning .] [OF. froignier, F. frogner, in se refrogner, se renfrogner, to knit the brow, to frown; perh. of Teutonic origin; cf. It. in frigno wrinkled, frowning, Prov. It. frignare ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. showing displeasure or anger
Usage examples of frowning.
I put Logan in a wheelbarrow and pushed him back up the farm lane to get more apples, frowning and chewing my tongue as I went.
And Balder too, the bloodless god looked down On me with frowning glances full of threats.
Miss Hamlin was frowning at Captain Draycutt, a pompous cavalry officer whom Brenn had dismissed earlier in the evening as more flash than substance.
Silence followed their course on the Ficinan model, frowning to herself as Bruja moved from the relative safety of its current position to the snaking line of harmony that skirted the worst of the coil of interference.
After his two smiling, giggling daughters served their father, they served Pete, Cali, Ray and, lastly, the frowning Ahmed.
On Carida, in the main citadel of the Imperial military training center, Ambassador Furgan looked down at his comm officer, frowning with lips the color of fresh bruises.
She was frowning as she looked up, but abstractedly, as if the worst news Claus might be bringing them would be of some potential distraction from their work.
She was frowning as she looked up, but abstractedly, as if the worst news Claus might be bringing them would be of some potential distraction from then-work.
For five minutes Condy had been picking it up and laying it down, frowning abstractedly at it during the pauses in the conversation.
Then Condy would read the last chapter while the Captain paced the floor, frowning heavily, smoking cigars, listening to every word.
It was a redoubt worthy of the name, and it stood there at the center of the cuplike vale with stolid rocky patience, frowning at the surrounding hills, antique and indomitable.
Not that we have anything against Elmira, though possibly its embattled reformatory, frowning from the hillside, contributed its gloomy associations to our spirits.
Terror was picking his steps, narvous, among the stones of the road, whin suddenly a frowning, ugly rock seemed to jump up and stand ferninst them at a turn of the path.
Brianna patted her hair, frowning, then pulled off the ribbon and began to comb her fingers slowly through it, undoing the tangles as a preliminary to brushing it.
He lifted his feet out of the footwell and rose, aiming his tricorder in four cardinal directions and frowning at the readouts.