SCOWLING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scowling mean? 

• SCOWLING (adjective)
  The adjective SCOWLING has 1 sense:

1. sullen or unfriendly in appearance

  Familiarity information: SCOWLING used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCOWLING (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Sullen or unfriendly in appearance

Synonyms:

beetle-browed; scowling

Similar:

unfriendly (not disposed to friendship or friendliness)

 Context examples 

I’d have a short life if he had his way—the black-eyed, scowling, yellow devil.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Blow the bugles!” cried Sir Hugh, with a scowling brow.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He got downstairs next morning, to be sure, and had his meals as usual, though he ate little and had more, I am afraid, than his usual supply of rum, for he helped himself out of the bar, scowling and blowing through his nose, and no one dared to cross him.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a sombre evening, with a lurid light in the sky; and as I saw the prospect scowling in the distance, with here and there some larger object starting up into the sullen glare, I fancied it was no inapt companion to the memory of this fierce woman.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I almost expected a rebuff for this hardly well-timed question, but, on the contrary, waking out of his scowling abstraction, he turned his eyes towards me, and the shade seemed to clear off his brow.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I knew Mr. Rochester; though the begrimed face, the disordered dress (his coat hanging loose from one arm, as if it had been almost torn from his back in a scuffle), the desperate and scowling countenance, the rough, bristling hair might well have disguised him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With them also were the pick of the Gascon chivalry—the old Duc d'Armagnac, his nephew Lord d'Albret, brooding and scowling over his wrongs, the giant Oliver de Clisson, the Captal de Buch, pink of knighthood, the sprightly Sir Perducas d'Albret, the red-bearded Lord d'Esparre, and a long train of needy and grasping border nobles, with long pedigrees and short purses, who had come down from their hill-side strongholds, all hungering for the spoils and the ransoms of Spain.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)