The Collaborative International Dictionary
Beetle-browed \Bee"tle-browed`\, a. [OE. bitelbrowed; cf. OE. bitel, adj., sharp, projecting, n., a beetle. See Beetle an insect.] Having prominent, overhanging brows; hence, lowering or sullen.
Note: The earlier meaning was, ``Having bushy or overhanging eyebrows.''
Wiktionary
a. making an unfriendly or sullen face
WordNet
adj. sullen or unfriendly in appearance [syn: scowling]
Usage examples of "beetle-browed".
They were three beetle-browed men in dun-colored tunics and the red-checkered turbans of Sabians.
Two days later I drove into the gravel parking lot at the Forecastle, a run-down old seaside motel, registered, and had a brief chin wag with the desk clerk, a strange, beetle-browed duck with a squashed beak, bald head, and no chin under his five oclock shadow.
Here's a bald, aggressive-looking fellow, beetle-browed, wearing what looks like a pair of cut-offs and a top made by deconstructing a space suit.
The Marine colonel had been a beetle-browed specimen with no neck, just slabs of deltoid muscle sloping up to his ears.
I felt like a beetle-browed brute with a dripping knife and hands imbrued with innocent gore.
It sticks out into San Pedro Bay, where the older, nastier Burbclaves of the Basin-unplanned Burbclaves of tiny asbestos-shingled houses patrolled by beetle-browed Kampuchean men with pump shotguns-fade off into the foam-kissed beaches.
It sticks out into San Pedro Bay, where the older, nastier Burbclaves of the Basin -- unplanned Burbclaves of tiny asbestos-shingled houses patrolled by beetle-browed Kampuchean men with pump shotguns -- fade off into the foam-kissed beaches.
Binet fetched a sigh, and addressed himself to the elderly, swarthy, beetle-browed Polichinelle, who sat on his left.
Conaran continued, and he smiled a black, beetle-browed, unbenevolent smile.