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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Recent Examples of glower
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
Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
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
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Verb
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
Noun
The day before that, Onah was at the film’s world premiere in Los Angeles, where life-size statues of Wilson and Ross’ crimson alter ego, Red Hulk, glowered at each other in front of the TCL Chinese Theater.
—Adam B. Vary, Variety, 21 Feb. 2025
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
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glower
Verb
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Jaden Springer, Jazz (NG) Springer is only 22 and has shown real promise as a defender, but his 23.8 percent career mark on 3s is a glaring problem.—
John Hollinger,
New York Times,
18 June 2025
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Meloni's body language was reminiscent of another moment of friction at a past G7 summit — when then-German Chancellor Angela Merkel was photographed in 2018 leaning over a table to glare at President Donald Trump, who in turn, folded his arms across his chest and glared back.—
Rachel Raposas,
People.com,
17 June 2025
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Scientists had expected that radiation from the magnetic field of Uranus would darken the trailing hemispheres of its moons, but an analysis of the surfaces of Uranus’ four major moons — Ariel, Umbriel, Titania and Oberon — found the opposite.—
Jamie Carter,
Forbes.com,
11 June 2025
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While the Village itself skirted much physical damage, its storefronts have stood empty for weeks upon weeks, their windows darkened.—
Kate Nishimura,
Sourcing Journal,
29 May 2025
Noun
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It could be considered a sign of ambivalence toward her mirror image, or the body image created through internalizing the gaze of the other.—
Rosemary Feitelberg,
Footwear News,
24 June 2025
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In uncertain times, individuals simply can’t afford to divert their gaze away from everything happening globally.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
20 June 2025
Verb
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Far too often, business leaders get caught staring at the wrong gauges—hyper-focused on vanity metrics, internal politics or the crisis of the week.—
Ryan Kunkel,
Forbes.com,
23 June 2025
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Captured in the early morning, the video shows the woman entering her kitchen to find her partner staring at a grey cat, which is nonchalantly eating from a bowl on the floor.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
20 June 2025
Verb
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In the United States, doing significant work a rental might be frowned upon.—
Thea Duncan Prando,
CNBC,
17 May 2025
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Mook continued to openly frown at Gaitok’s strong moral compass, valid worries, and vulnerabilities.—
Jodi Guglielmi,
Rolling Stone,
7 Apr. 2025
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In the meantime, Claude scrutinized the room, alternately winking and scowling at the residents and care workers within eyeshot before diligently watching the door.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
18 June 2025
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There’s a noticeable pride Morot takes in touring me around his geek’s paradise: a two-level office crammed with shelves of scowling latex heads, furry creatures and a pair of giant gators overlooking it all.—
Joshua Rothkopf,
Los Angeles Times,
14 May 2025
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“Glower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glower. Accessed 4 Jul. 2025.
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