frowning 1 of 2

present participle of frown
as in glaring
to look with anger or disapproval the boss just stood there and frowned at his assistant who, once again, was in trouble

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frowning

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adjective

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for frowning
Verb
  • The structure is stale and insular, with glaring blind spots.
    Jim Osman, Forbes.com, 6 Sep. 2025
  • Deep into an auditorium of hundreds, perhaps more, a then-60 year old high school social studies teacher, sitting alone, could feel eyes throughout the room suddenly glaring in his direction.
    Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 5 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • The Irish are 0-1 and staring at an idle weekend with plenty to work on after a 27-24 loss in Miami on the Sunday night of Week 1.
    Pete Sampson, New York Times, 2 Sep. 2025
  • But after weeks of staring at bare ground, a few green shoots pushed through the dark silt.
    Lila Hempel-Edgers, Charlotte Observer, 2 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • His Teddy is a skeevy, scowling hippie incel who seems to have burnt everything out of himself but the desire for vengeance.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 28 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The President is a sullen bore, but Servillo’s performance is always a hair less moribund than the movie around it, and held tight by the sincerity of his ambivalence.
    David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 27 Aug. 2025
  • Until the UFOs arrive, the sullen grandeur of OK Computer will have to suffice for Yorke, and the rest of us, too.
    EW Staff Published, EW.com, 14 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • It’s set in a small-town community in upstate New York, where the long-gray-haired and bearded Monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin) is the contempo version of a fire-and-brimstone cult leader, preaching fury in the form of piety.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 7 Sep. 2025
  • But Leticia Gutierrez, a gray-haired Catholic nun, asked them to sit down.
    Lauren Villagran, USA Today, 7 Sep. 2025
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“Frowning.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/frowning. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.

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