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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as in glare
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Recent Examples of glower
Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
Declan, quite a serious character in the novel, proceeds to drink obscene amounts of whiskey and smoke intellectually in the bath, glowering beneath his mustache.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Coming off a half-dozen roles in a two-year span, Modine was having a pancake breakfast with David Alan Grier, one of his co-stars from Robert Altman’s Streamers (1983), when a fellow patron at West Hollywood’s The Source Restaurant greeted him from afar with an f-bomb and a glower.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
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Verb
The joke, of course, is that much of Washington started this week waiting to see if the new President would glower at the hot new app from China.
—Philip Elliott, TIME, 28 Jan. 2025
Declan, quite a serious character in the novel, proceeds to drink obscene amounts of whiskey and smoke intellectually in the bath, glowering beneath his mustache.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
Noun
As Joey Locke, the overworked window washer frustrated with her thankless job in a corporate building, Ridley deploys the same glower for every challenge her character faces.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 21 Feb. 2025
Coming off a half-dozen roles in a two-year span, Modine was having a pancake breakfast with David Alan Grier, one of his co-stars from Robert Altman’s Streamers (1983), when a fellow patron at West Hollywood’s The Source Restaurant greeted him from afar with an f-bomb and a glower.
—Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 18 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glower
Verb
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Third base has been a glaring problem spot for the Cubs for the last few years, and particularly this season.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
17 May 2025
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This is especially glaring compared to large-cap growth stocks, many of which have rallied 20%, 30%, 40% from their lows.—
Frank Cappelleri,
CNBC,
14 May 2025
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The bottom line: The clouds hanging over the economy are darkening and gathering, economists say.—
Laurent Belsie,
Christian Science Monitor,
2 May 2025
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As the sky darkened and duck calls filled the sky, their number appeared as a shadowed cloud approaching the rice fields.—
Lizz Schumer,
People.com,
1 May 2025
Noun
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The camera watches all that’s happening from the open-hearted, but slightly confused gaze of the young brothers.—
Murtada Elfadl,
Variety,
19 May 2025
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The other key collaborator is cinematographer Josée Deshaies (Passages, The Beast), who shuffles between intimate shots and wider frames, her camera jostled among the sea of people in the city or composed in its gaze, with minimal movement.—
David Rooney,
HollywoodReporter,
17 May 2025
Verb
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The mirrors reflecting the best poems are slightly warped so that reading feels like staring into rippling passages.—
Terrance Hayes,
New Yorker,
19 May 2025
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Both O’Connor and the bird stare directly at the viewer.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
19 May 2025
Verb
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His punitive overreaction to a student caught shoplifting in a college cafeteria is frowned upon, particularly because Ed is no longer the campus security chief.—
Dennis Harvey,
Variety,
25 Apr. 2025
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Traditionally, these two types of travel have been kept entirely separate, and it has been frowned upon to mix one with the other.—
Egor Karpovich,
Forbes.com,
15 Apr. 2025
Verb
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Today, there’s no reason for the Padres to be scowling.—
Tom Krasovic,
San Diego Union-Tribune,
13 Apr. 2025
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The image, which shows Trump scowling to the camera for his booking shot at the Fulton County Jail in Atlanta, has become a symbol.—
Alana Wise,
NPR,
20 Feb. 2025
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“Glower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glower. Accessed 24 May. 2025.
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