1
as in to glare
to look with anger or disapproval
baseball fans glowering at their TVs as they watched their favorite team lose
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as in to darken
to take on a gloomy or forbidding look
the old man just sat in his rocking chair, his face glowering at the prospect of unwanted company
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as in glare
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Recent Examples of glower
Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
The most notable is a glowering destroyer that gathers steam during an evening rodeo, clobbering the grandstand and nearby motel almost without warning.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
The glower, it must be said, has a precedent in the arrest photograph of Hermann Göring, the president of the Nazi Reichstag.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
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Verb
The strategy included putting hostile faces in the first row to glower at the enemy.
—Dean Minnich, Baltimore Sun, 13 July 2024
The most notable is a glowering destroyer that gathers steam during an evening rodeo, clobbering the grandstand and nearby motel almost without warning.
—David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 July 2024
Noun
As the anxious, aspiring Cambridge postgrad, Labbadia glowers and snaps and trudges around in a dirty bathrobe, playing a first-person shooter on a handheld gaming console and sullenly bouncing a tennis ball off the wall.
—Sara Holdren, Vulture, 17 Nov. 2023
The glower, it must be said, has a precedent in the arrest photograph of Hermann Göring, the president of the Nazi Reichstag.
—Zach Helfand, The New Yorker, 28 Aug. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for glower
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On both deterrence and defense spending, by contrast, the Trump administration could be poised to address glaring vulnerabilities from the start.Kori Schake, Foreign Affairs, 8 Nov. 2024
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Musselman had been pretty open about USC’s glaring question marks at center, where the Trojans have just two players over 6-8 — Cohen and 6-10 returner Harrison Hornery, neither of whom are really the physical, low-post type of big man.Ryan Kartje, Los Angeles Times, 4 Nov. 2024
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The experience of being a Black foreigner in a country governed by its racial gradients darkened his view of Kenya.Alexis Okeowo, The New Yorker, 30 Oct. 2024
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If artificial intelligence could be used to brighten a person’s mood, it could probably be used for darkening a person’s personality, too.Lizz Schumer, People.com, 29 Oct. 2024
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But when the Hubble Space Telescope turned its gaze toward Neptune’s dark eye in 1994, the spot had disappeared.Shi En Kim, Smithsonian Magazine, 5 Nov. 2024
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Eastwood’s unhurried gaze allows the characters’ humanity to shine through.Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 1 Nov. 2024
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The traditional media business has been staring at these multiple roads for years now, and none of them are anywhere near as bucolic as Frost’s woods.Howard Homonoff, Forbes, 4 Nov. 2024
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Most of Mars’s subjects stare straight into her lens.Paige Williams, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2024
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What Wyler is frowning about, past this threat to her own ambition — that’s less coherent.Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 13 Nov. 2024
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In all three cases, Google is fighting desperately to avoid being broken up as a monopoly, and judges have frowned deeply upon its handling of evidence.Ethan Baron, The Mercury News, 10 Nov. 2024
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The scowling image has been used by both opponents and supporters.Phil Helsel, NBC News, 30 Oct. 2024
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Bruce, now 69, appears to be holding the camera and scowling into the lens.Jack Smart, People.com, 17 Oct. 2024
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“Glower.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/glower. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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