| 单词 | glowering |
| 释义 | glowering (once / 7665 pages) adj Someone who's glowering has a dark, angry expression on her face. A glowering principal marching abruptly into your classroom probably means someone's in trouble. If you wear a glowering expression, people are going to assume that you're mad at them — or just having a terrible day. The adjective glowering began with the verb glower, "to scowl," which had the 14th century meaning "to shine," and later "to stare with wide eyes." This sense of staring shifted around the beginning of the 18th century to mean "stare angrily." WORD FAMILYglowering: gloweringly+/glower: glowered, glowering, glowers USAGE EXAMPLESHis customarily lithe bass-baritone skews here toward an inky, glowering darkness, and his interpretation throughout is freighted with tragic import. Washington Post(Dec 15, 2016) The two continued to pose — Mr. Trump smiling; Mr. West glowering — while reporters tried to extract a comment from the normally opinionated musician. New York Times(Dec 13, 2016) Sane Donald Trump, just to start, would look normal and happy, not grim and glowering. Wall Street Journal(Oct 20, 2016) adj showing a brooding ill humor Syn dark, dour, glum, moody, morose, saturnine, sour, sullen ill-natured having an irritable and unpleasant disposition |
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