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English Dictionary: glowering by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
glowering
adj
  1. showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
    Synonym(s): dark, dour, glowering, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Glower \Glow"er\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Glowered}; p. pr. & vb.
      n. {Glowering}.] [Cf. {Gloar}.]
      to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl.
      --Thackeray.
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