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• v  frown with displeasure
• s  sullen or unfriendly in appearance

• For more than two hours, as shouts and applause rose in regular cadences, the scowling, incendiary speaker obliged by pouring out his scorn upon all "white devils," "satisfied .
• And in one of the iron-barred cages she sat, shorn of her power, glowering at the court officials, scowling at the Carabinierian old woman, with wrinkled skin, ferocious .
• No vulgarian (red vest, shock of red hair, silk hat) could be as preposterous as Jiggs; no scowling, tight-lipped lady as savage as Maggie.

• scowl
• beetle-browed

News & Articles

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• Lego figurines: No more Mr. Nice Toy?
  Many Legos' facial expressions have shifted from happy and contented in the 1970s, to scowling, frowning, or snarling since the late 80s, says a social robotics researcher.
  June 15, 2013 - The Christian Science Monitor
• No more Mr. Nice Toy: Lego figures smile less
  Lego, maker of the plastic toy pieces and figures that spawned a global empire, isn't playing nice anymore. That's the finding of a recent study, which showed that an increasing number of Lego figures' faces are scowling, frowning or snarling rather than smiling. In the 1970s, when Lego added human figures to their successful line of construction blocks, most of the figures wore happy, contented ...
  June 15, 2013 - NBC NEWS

Quotes

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• John Kerry in KVUE
  The reason I though he was making all those scowling faces was because he saw the latest job numbers,Kerry told about 10,000 people at a rally in this northeastern Ohio community.
• Adam Green in BuddyTV
  It's kind of a bummer role,Green said of his own non-speaking part. "It's really me and the Misshapes scowling and looking like we're not having a good time."
• Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in Telegraph.co.uk
  This means they only want democracy which serves their interests and they don't respect people's votes and rights,said Mr Ahmadinejad "Well, no-one in Iran is waiting for your messages. Iranians will neither value your scowling and...