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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
scowl
I.verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
scowling (=one that shows you are not pleased about something)
▪ He looked around and saw his boss's scowling face behind him.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ "What do you want?" said the old man, scowling.
▪ Jane scowled and told them to get out.
▪ What are you scowling at me for? You asked me to wake you up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He went reluctantly, scowling and cursing the man on the horse.
▪ Irritable and moody, she shook her hair back and leaned back on her braced hands and scowled at me.
▪ Luce washed herself and smoothed her fringe as best she could, scowling at her reflection in the mirror.
▪ Papi always scowled and told her not to speak such nonsense.
▪ Reed has been scowling so long in his long career that it seems a natural repose for him.
▪ The off-shift sat scowling on a wall, counting their money.
II.noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ A teenage girl was sitting alone in a corner with a scowl on her face.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Bedford returned the scowl with a smile.
▪ Bell started Job Corps last March, standing 6 foot 6 and wearing a scowl.
▪ He looked up at me with a scowl, a scowl of surprise.
▪ He will laugh loudly then stop suddenly, with a scowl.
▪ She passes through much of the movie with a monotonous scowl.
▪ The little mouth was born with a scowl, the brows positively beetle over the turned-up be-ringed breathing apparatus.
▪ The ripple of laughter that followed brought a scowl to Trentham's face.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Scowl

Scowl \Scowl\, v. t.

  1. To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown.
    --Milton.

  2. To express by a scowl; as, to scowl defiance.

Scowl

Scowl \Scowl\ (skoul), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Scowled (skould); p. pr. & vb. n. Scowling.] [Akin to Dan. skule; cf. Icel. skolla to skulk, LG. schulen to hide one's self, D. schuilen, G. schielen to squint, Dan. skele, Sw. skela, AS. sceolh squinting. Cf. Skulk.]

  1. To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry.

    She scowled and frowned with froward countenance.
    --Spenser.

  2. Hence, to look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. ``The scowling heavens.''
    --Thomson.

Scowl

Scowl \Scowl\, n.

  1. The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowing; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown.

    With solemn phiz, and critic scowl.
    --Lloyd.

  2. Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect.
    --Burns.

    A ruddy storm, whose scowl Made heaven's radiant face look foul.
    --Crashaw.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
scowl

mid-14c., from a Scandinavian source (compare Norwegian skule "look furtively, squint, look embarrassed," Danish skule "to scowl, cast down the eyes"). Probably related to Old English sceolh "wry, oblique," Old High German scelah "curved," German scheel "squint-eyed;" from PIE root *sqel- "crooked, curved, bent." Related: Scowled; scowling.

scowl

c.1500, from scowl (v.).

Wiktionary
scowl

n. 1 The wrinkling of the brows or face in frowning; the expression of displeasure, sullenness, or discontent in the countenance; an angry frown. 2 Hence, gloom; dark or threatening aspect. vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, or angry. 2 (context intransitive by extension English) To look gloomy, dark, or threatening; to lower. 3 (context intransitive English) To look at or repel with a scowl or a frown. 4 (context transitive English) To express by a scowl.

WordNet
scowl
  1. n. a facial expression of dislike or displeasure [syn: frown]

  2. v. frown with displeasure

Wikipedia
Scowl (disambiguation)

Scowl may refer to:

  • Scowl, another word for frown
  • To wrinkle or contract the brow as an expression of anger or disapproval.
  • Scowl (Transformers), one of the Monster Pretenders in the Transformers universe

Usage examples of "scowl".

My friend, who in the meanwhile had been observing him with curiosity, conceiving him to be a foreigner, inquired in the course of the evening who he was, remarking that he had never seen a man with such a Cain-like mark on the forehead before, alluding to that singular scowl which struck me so forcibly when I first saw him, and which appears to have made a stronger impression upon me than it did upon many others.

The rest were moving from corridor mouth to corridor mouth, glancing toward her and then away, scowling at the sight of gengineered anathema, pretending they saw nothing out of the ordinary in what was being offered her.

The Beater who had dropped his bat earlier was scowling at Harry and started flying straight at him.

Scowling at the Beater, Harry looked down at the ground where the dropped bat lay.

There was one chair which Beryl, scowling, pushed forward, at the same time sitting upon the bed.

To my relief, my guard remained blessedly silent as we traversed its marbled halls, contenting himself with hovering behind me and scowling at everyone we passed.

Three brawny rogues who, scowling, fiercely eyed him, And with lewd gibes and mocking gestures plied him.

Fred scowled, looking more like a longshoreman than the interior designer he really was.

Barlow scowling in a grim Wyoming snowscape, with long black coat, dark hat, a Macintosh SE30 propped on a fencepost and an awesome frontier rifle tucked under one arm, will be the single most striking visual image of the Hacker Crackdown.

It was Roy Mallender and the sight of his flushed, scowling face told Harry that he had just made his second mistake of the evening.

She pulled her wet hair off the back of her neck, then scowled at her cabinet where the mannikin howled with laughter.

To the contrary, they wore shapeless rags, their hair seemed deliberately misarranged, their faces dirty and scowling.

To his amusement, his sober schoolmistress played like an enthusiastic child, scowling when she miscued, glowing with satisfaction when she potted a ball.

Whenever this powdered and courteous old man, who never missed a Sunday at the convent chapel at Hammersmith, and who was in all respects, thoughts, conduct, and bearing utterly unlike the bearded savages of his nation, who curse perfidious Albion, and scowl at you from over their cigars, in the Quadrant arcades at the present day-- whenever the old Chevalier de Talonrouge spoke of Mistress Osborne, he would first finish his pinch of snuff, flick away the remaining particles of dust with a graceful wave of his hand, gather up his fingers again into a bunch, and, bringing them up to his mouth, blow them open with a kiss, exclaiming, Ah!

It seemed to him that Smytheton scowled even more furiously, and the modiste appeared more than scandalized.