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frowningly
adverb
uk /ˈfraʊ.nɪŋ.li/ us /ˈfraʊ.nɪŋ.li/
while frowning(= bringing your eyebrows together so that there are lines on your face above your eyes) to show you are worried or not pleased with something:
He regarded me frowningly. "You were there when they received the news, weren't you?"
She frowningly pushed the papers about her desk, trying to work out why the figures didn't add up.
He often becomes frowningly silent for long periods.
He looked closely at every inch of her face, like a jeweller frowningly examining a precious object.
My friends looked at me frowningly and I started to realize what I'd agreed to do.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Grimacing and frowning
bitchy resting face
cloud
curl
death stare
evil
eye
eye-roll
eye-rolling
if looks could kill...idiom
knit
knit your brow/browsidiom
look daggers at someoneidiom
pout
purse
roll
scowlingly
screw
scrunch
sneer
witheringly
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frown
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