The Collaborative International Dictionary
glowering \glowering\ adj. having a cheerless aspect or disposition.
Syn: dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen.
Wiktionary
n. The act of giving a glower. vb. (present participle of glower English)
WordNet
adj. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd" [syn: dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen]
Usage examples of "glowering".
Courtney Broadhead had gone to the far end of the room and stayed there, glowering, till old Vernon strolled across and tried to talk him into a better humour.
That left Caineron with the elegant Randir and Korey of the Coman, glowering from a corner.
It was only then, as the boat spun sideways, that Pender saw the glowering, purple face of Dunlop astride the rearmost thwarts.
He leapt nimbly across the boats and jumped up on to the quay side Dunlop followed at a more sedate pace, glowering at the barge crew.
Don Guillermo sat as host, trying to be politely jovial to these men he hated while at the same time riding tight, glowering herd on his own hotblooded officers lest one of them say or do that which their instincts and his own all called insistently to be done, in all of its violence and bloodshed.
Her mother arrived then with Hank in tow, the dark-haired man glowering at Sarah as if this was all her fault.
He stood glowering at Rosie, fists clenched, but the big jaygee just shrugged his shoulders and ignored him, methodically issuing beer to a continuous line of other sailors.
His face impassive, he bent his lionlike glowering gaze upon Thoth-Amon.
As he went out, Koffler was straddling a chair, glowering at Doris Rives and making occasional ostentatious notes on a pad.
Argolis fighters, plain-speaking Diomedes, is also here, not happy tonight, glowering at the ground, his arms folded.
There were more people in the room than she had expected, for Gabe stood before the fire, glowering, and Piedro Alar sat in one of the chairs, looking tired and miserable.
Even now I can recall the glowering face of Ralph Beamish, the racehorse trainer, as he watched me getting out of my car.
The leather helmet is tossed to a glowering Hades, and, dressed as he is in black chitinous armor of exotic design, he looks like a terrible, glowering beetle.
Lines of dark fire and rays of flame heat arced across the glowering sky that abruptly flared sun-white in brilliance.
And, in a way, it was, because no one on this miserable mudball of a planet—including the four-armed pain in the ass glowering at her—had ever heard of the concept of field artillery.