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词汇 scowl
释义 scowl
verb[ I ]
uk /skaʊl/ us /skaʊl/
to look at someone or something with a very annoyed expression: 阴沉着脸看,怒目而视
The boy scowled at her and reluctantly followed her back into school.男孩对她阴沉着脸,很不情愿地跟着她回了学校。
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Grimacing and frowning
bitchy resting face
cloud
curl
death stare
evil
eye
eye-roll
eye-rolling
grimace
if looks could kill...idiom
knit
knit your brow/browsidiom
look daggers at someoneidiom
purse
roll
scowlingly
screw
scrunch
sneer
witheringly
scowl
noun[ C ]
uk /skaʊl/ us /skaʊl/
a very annoyed expression:
She was clearly annoyed, as you could tell from the scowl on her face.
He opened the door again, not bothering to hide his fierce scowl.
He had a bald head, a huge belly, and a menacing scowl.
His scowl had deepened, and there was a note of warning in his voice.
He slumped in his battered chair, his face a furious scowl.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Grimacing and frowning
bitchy resting face
cloud
curl
death stare
evil
eye
eye-roll
eye-rolling
grimace
if looks could kill...idiom
knit
knit your brow/browsidiom
look daggers at someoneidiom
purse
roll
scowlingly
screw
scrunch
sneer
witheringly

scowl | American Dictionary


scowl
verb[ I ]
us/skɑʊl/
to use the face to express anger, esp. at someone:
When I asked the boss for a day off, he just scowled and told me to get back to work.

scowl


noun[ C ]us/skɑʊl/
She is clearly annoyed, as you can tell from the scowl on her face.

Examples of scowl


scowl
A serious, scowling and disproportionately large face sits uneasily on his diminutive body.
The owner waited on her, a scowl on his face, handing her everything she requested.
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.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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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