1
as in glaring
to look with anger or disapproval
we just sat there, glooming, as we waited and waited for our dinners to arrive
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2
as in darkening
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look
he continued to gloom over the fact that he had been passed over for promotion to district manager
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If, by our standard, that is glaring plagiarism, the obvious retort is that the standard of the early seventeenth century was a very different beast.—
Anthony Lane,
New Yorker,
22 Mar. 2026 -
The team just needs to shore up its glaring weakness in 3-point defense.—
Steven Louis Goldstein,
New York Times,
21 Mar. 2026
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Sweep sidewalks regularly to keep dirt and debris from building up and darkening the color.—
Karen Brewer Grossman,
Southern Living,
13 Mar. 2026
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The lens darkening is a boon, though, as turning on the tint makes the image really pop against the dark background.—
Will Greenwald,
PC Magazine,
12 Mar. 2026
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He was picked up first on meth charges on May 14, 1986, according to news reports and a San Francisco police booking photo, which shows him in a blue hoodie scowling into the camera.—
Senior Editor,
Los Angeles Times,
23 Feb. 2026
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Then there was that image circulating in the bowels of the internet that showed a man who looked exactly like JD scowling at an unidentifiable brunette woman in a restaurant.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
13 Feb. 2026
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Before that incident, he is accused of staring at a woman and child for several minutes.—
Nikiya Carrero,
CBS News,
21 Mar. 2026
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Smartphones onstage can be weird and deadly, but one of the most striking moments in Jeena Yi’s Jesa happens as all the play’s actors are staring into one.—
Sara Holdren,
Vulture,
21 Mar. 2026
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The men stood frowning at each other and then back at Adi until the one without the gun broke into croaks of laughter.—
Jonathan Miles,
Harpers Magazine,
27 Jan. 2026
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Smiling can actually lift your mood, while frowning can lower it.—
Valerie Monroe,
Allure,
15 Jan. 2026
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“Glooming.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glooming. Accessed 27 Mar. 2026.
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