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Definition of Scowling
1. Adjective. Sullen or unfriendly in appearance.
Definition of Scowling
1. Verb. (present participle of scowl) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Scowling
1. scowl [v] - See also: scowl
Lexicographical Neighbors of Scowling
Literary usage of Scowling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australian Byways: The Narrative of a Sentimental Traveler by Norman Duncan (1915)
"Outside we found the long, scowling man, sitting in a corner of the veranda, ...
The scowling man's chair was tipped back, and his feet were put up, ..."
2. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... with scowling brows drawn down, Makes o'er her eyes a veil; such Ajax show'd
Moving around Patroclus ; at whose side Stood Menelaus also, Atreus' son, ..."
3. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1834)
"I thought on the glory, the sunshine of yore, When Hope rear'd her fairy-built
piles to the view ; Then turn'd to the darken'd plain scowling before, ..."
4. Kate Beaumont by John William De Forest (1872)
"Vincent, this is monstrous severe," said Beaumont, half scowling and half cringing.
Beaumont quailed before his son; but the next instant he thought of his ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1882)
"... for Thomas his scowling until the i ith of July ...too The succeeding extract
appears to me one of the most interesting in the book ; it has reference ..."
6. Curran and His Contemporaries by Charles Phillips (1850)
"I'll tell you what, Mr Egan," replied Curran, his pistol in his hand, and Egan
scowling at him under brows that rivalled Lord Thurlow's—" I wish to take no ..."
7. Great Truths by Great Authors (1856)
"Nor ever may he feel the scowling eye Of dark Distrust his Confidence reprove !
In pleasing error may I rather rove, With blind reliance on the hand so dear ..."
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