Usually means: Frowning with displeasure or anger.
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  1. scowling: Merriam-Webster
  2. scowling: Collins English Dictionary
  3. scowling: Vocabulary.com
  4. Scowling, scowling: Wordnik
  5. scowling: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. scowling: Wiktionary
  7. scowling: Dictionary.com
  8. scowling: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. Scowling: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  10. scowling: Rhymezone
  11. Scowling: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  12. scowling: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  13. scowling: FreeDictionary.org
  14. scowling: Mnemonic Dictionary
  15. scowling: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. scowling: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (scowling)

▸ noun:  The act of giving a scowl.

Similar:
beetle-browed, unfriendly, grimacing, lour, sneering, scoffing, scoffery, wincing, smirk, snarling, more...

Opposite:
smiling, grinning, beaming, laughing

Types:
disapproving scowl, angry scowl, skeptical scowl, confused scowl, judgmental scowl, disappointed scowl, sarcastic scowl, disgusted scowl, more...

Phrases:
scowling expression, scowling in the distance, more...

Adjectives:
other, many, dark, good, half, melodramatic, sullen, longer, busy, such, last

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Similar:
beetle-browed, unfriendly, grimacing, lour, sneering, scoffing, scoffery, wincing, smirk, snarling, more...

Opposite:
smiling, grinning, beaming, laughing

Types:
disapproving scowl, angry scowl, skeptical scowl, confused scowl, judgmental scowl, disappointed scowl, sarcastic scowl, disgusted scowl, more...

Phrases:
scowling expression, scowling in the distance, more...

Adjectives:
other, many, dark, good, half, melodramatic, sullen, longer, busy, such, last

Colors:
    dark gray,     charcoal,     black,     deep red,     maroon, more...



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