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1
as in to glare
to look with anger or disapproval baseball fans glowering at their TVs as they watched their favorite team lose

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2
as in to darken
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look the old man just sat in his rocking chair, his face glowering at the prospect of unwanted company

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glower

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noun

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Recent Examples of glower
Verb
Fast-forward to 2025 and the robot now has slightly different features, including a new more life-like hairdo and a facial expression closer to Trump's trademark glower. Dan Gooding, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 July 2025 After news of Guerrero’s death broke on Sunday, makeup artist Scott Barnes posted an Instagram reel with a picture of his adorned with glowers and white doves. Andrea Flores, Los Angeles Times, 26 Feb. 2025
Noun
Timothy Spall glowers as Polonius, the fixer and advisor to the family business. Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 30 Aug. 2025 He’s blessed with a tense, scrabbling physicality on screen, plus a baby-Brando glower beneath a head of striking blond curls, and Nemes directs him into a stance of braced, vulnerable defensiveness that serves the film’s purposes well — even if his character, too, wants for interior light. Guy Lodge, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025 See All Example Sentences for glower
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glower
Verb
  • The Mariners defense worries me, but there’s not an American League team that doesn’t have a glaring flaw.
    The Athletic MLB Staff, New York Times, 30 Sep. 2025
  • Per some glaring social media posts that went viral last week, the distributor seemingly used AI to face swap a male character with the face of a woman.
    Brian Welk, IndieWire, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • When the sky darkens, her stomach clenches.
    Alaa Elassar, CNN Money, 1 Oct. 2025
  • With an athlete’s discipline, Blass refused to let his pitching darken his mood at home.
    Jonathan Blitzer, New Yorker, 28 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Art, Blackness, and the Universe is an outward gaze—one that stretches across galaxies.
    Okla Jones, Essence, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Her steady, unseductive gaze confronts the viewer and demands recognition of her authorship.
    Sally Jane Brown, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • When Mahomes stares into the secondary, he’s greeted with congestion.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 26 Sep. 2025
  • The other two cats were shown sitting on the top of a toilet, staring at the fresh water in the sink, as if waiting patiently for their go.
    Melissa Fleur Afshar, MSNBC Newsweek, 25 Sep. 2025
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  • According to Coker, Robb & Cannon, these consequences can also damage your case in family court, as judges generally frown on surveillance between spouses or co-parents.
    Tiffani Jackson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Not explained is whether Makary would be happier if drug companies placed ads with immobile patients, frowns, and funereal music.
    John Tamny, Forbes.com, 17 Sep. 2025
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  • Ray’s brother, Jem (Sean Bean), has shown up to reconnect, and for a long time these two sit around not saying very much, pouring drinks and scowling at each other, at one point getting their ya-yas out with a midnight rock ‘n’ roll dance, then scowling some more.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Sep. 2025
  • His real name is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio; his stage name, as fans later learned, was inspired by a childhood photograph that captured him, scowling, in a rabbit costume.
    Kelefa Sanneh, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

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“Glower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glower. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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