glowering 1 of 2

present participle of glower
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as in glaring
to look with anger or disapproval baseball fans glowering at their TVs as they watched their favorite team lose

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glowering

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adjective

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Recent Examples of glowering
Adjective
Joe, glowering, stalks off through the crowd, clambers into his vehicle, and drives off. Richard Brody, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for glowering
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
  • Flowers are typically pale blue to lavender, darkening along the midrib and toward the tip of each petal.
    Kim Toscano, Southern Living, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Check the butter for signs of spoiling, including darkening, a foul odor, and/or a sour taste.
    BestReviews, Chicago Tribune, 22 Aug. 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

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“Glowering.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glowering. Accessed 9 Sep. 2025.

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