glowered

past tense of glower
1
as in glared
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 darkened
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 glowered Frazier, whose ring demeanor generally toggled between glowering and frowning, glowered. Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025
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Verb
  • New Amy spent the first season being glared at by most of the staff, because Old Amy was 10 times worse than that colleague who keeps reheating fish in the microwave.
    Julie Hinds, Freep.com, 23 Sep. 2025
  • Perry glared back at them but did not reply.
    Cybele Mayes-Osterman, USA Today, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • As for her glam, Strogoff wore her bright blonde hair in loose mermaid waves and darkened her eyebrows to a near black for a bold contrast.
    Starr Bowenbank, PEOPLE, 2 Oct. 2025
  • Their views on the economy's trajectory have darkened, with only 25 percent saying in September that things were getting better, down from 28 percent in August.
    Martha McHardy, MSNBC Newsweek, 21 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • Wenhardt stared at his pages, puzzled.
    Jane Bua, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Goldberg stared blankly into the camera before fully burying her head in her arms.
    Joey Nolfi, Entertainment Weekly, 18 Sep. 2025
Verb
  • That wasn’t something that was frowned upon.
    Max Gao, HollywoodReporter, 16 Sep. 2025
  • Japan was in a deep recession, but Uniqlo kept growing, offering bargains for the struggling masses and discretion for better-off consumers in an era that frowned upon conspicuous consumption.
    Lauren Collins, New Yorker, 15 Sep. 2025

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