Synonyms of scowling

scowling 1 of 2

adjective

as in frowning

Related Words

• frowning
• glaring
• glowering
• sullen
• lowering
• gray
• glum
• gloomy
• depressing
• melancholy
• black
• dismal
• darkening
• listless
• dark
• stoic
• unemotional
• blank
• flat

Dissimilar Words

• bright
• radiant
• sunny
• glowing
• shining
• gleaming
• brilliant
• beaming
• dazzling
• luminous
• starry
• aglow
• cheerful
• optimistic
• merry
• cheery
• gay
• mirthful
• upbeat
• blithe
• effulgent
• chipper
• refulgent
• blithesome
• lightsome
• gladsome

scowling

2 of 2

verb

present participle of scowl

as in glaring

to look with anger or disapproval

scowled down at the misbehaving child

Synonyms & Similar Words

• glaring
• staring
• frowning
• glowering
• gazing
• grimacing
• glooming
• lowering
• gaping
• snarling
• sneering
• ogling
• sulking
• looking daggers
• pouting
• growling
• sniggering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• smiling
• grinning
• beaming

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of scowling

Adjective

The video, which has garnered over 70,000 views as of Wednesday, opens with a scowling Donalds, sitting behind the governor’s desk one year into his hypothetical first term. — Garrett Shanley, Miami Herald, 10 June 2026

Verb

That is one of the tantalizing questions bubbling up in A Talent for Murder, in which Helen Mirren embodies Highsmith in all her devious, scowling genius. — Caryn James, HollywoodReporter, 14 Sep. 2026

Whether his teams were good or bad, his outspoken and occasionally scowling personality almost always commanded the room. — Carl Steward, Mercury News, 9 Aug. 2026

The note was written on Cohn’s personal stationery, imprinted with a scowling caricature of himself. — Kai Bird, New Yorker, 3 Aug. 2026

As a 7-year-old, I’d entertain my father’s friends, at their weekly pickup game at a Bronx barn-house gymnasium, by imitating his game face—bottom lip jutting, eyes scowling. — Sean Gregory, Time, 14 June 2026

Modern tiki tends to take a lighter touch, using more abstract graphics, less imagery of women and scowling gods. — Michael Goldstein, Forbes.com, 17 May 2026

But there’s more to Brind’Amour than the person fans see screaming and scowling behind the bench or stomping around the dressing room in a postwin video looking like some combination of Godzilla and Chris Farley’s famous Matt Foley character. — Cory Lavalette, New York Times, 7 May 2026

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

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