The boy scowled at her and reluctantly followed her back into school.
a very annoyed expression:
Meaning of scowl in English
(Definition of scowl from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
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Examples of scowl
scowl
A serious, scowling and disproportionately large face sits uneasily on his diminutive body.
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The owner waited on her, a scowl on his face, handing her everything she requested.
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There are some people whose smiles we do not like, and some people for whose scowls we do not care a rap.
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I too do not want to see him scowl.
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When unemployment falls, as it is falling, he positively scowls.
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A smile may be regarded as something which indicates injury as much as a scowl.
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No amount of yowling and scowling will get over that fact.
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But if the picket consisted of a large number of men scowling and looking threatening, that undoubtedly would be a form of intimidation.
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If they had, we should have been scowling at each other instead of smiling.
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We must have a feeling of happiness in all branches of industry so that when walking through a factory we see happy people and not scowling faces.
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Men with piercing eyes scowling at women.
I am asked to stop scowling.
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One never knows what his scowls mean.
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He need not scowl like that.
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A bitter older woman who always seems to have a scowl on her face.
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にらみつける, 苦い顔, 怖い顔…
kaş çatmak, suratını ekşitmek, yüzünü buruşturmak…
se renfrogner, jeter un regard courroucé, froncer les sourcils…
mirar amb les celles arrufades, arrufada de celles…
het voorhoofd fronsen, frons…
skule, skulen…
rynka ögonbrynen, bliga, bister uppsyn…
menunjukkan muka marah, muka marah…
finster blicken, der finstere Gesichtsausdruck…
skule, rynke pannen, skule til…
хмуритися, супитися, похмурий погляд…
сердито смотреть…
يَعْبُس, يَتَجَهَّم, عُبوس…
mračit se, zamračený…
mengerutkan muka, air muka marah…
ถลึงตา, มีสีหน้าแสดงความโกรธ…
giận dữ, cáu kỉnh, sự cau có…
krzywić się, patrzeć wilkiem, nachmurzyć się…
노려보다, 노려봄, 쏘아봄…
guardare di traverso, sguardo torvo, aggrottare le ciglia…
