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  • 111surly — Synonyms and related words: abrupt, aggressive, argumentative, bad tempered, bearish, beastly, beetle browed, bilious, black, black browed, bluff, blunt, boorish, brash, brusque, cantankerous, cavalier, choleric, churlish, crabbed, crabby, cross …

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  • 112whammy — Synonyms and related words: Jonah, amulet, anathema, bad blood, bad influence, bad temper, bad will, ban, bedroom eyes, blasphemy, blighting glance, bring bad luck, cantrip, charm, come hither look, commination, curse, damnation, denunciation,… …

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  • 113grim — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. fearful, stern, fierce, forbidding; inflexible; ruthless; grisly, horrible. See resolution, ugliness. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Sullen] Syn. crabbed, sour, repellent, crusty, gloomy, intractable,… …

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  • 114frowning — (Roget s IV) modif. Syn. scowling, glowering, sulky; see grim 1 , irritable …

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  • 115Sullenness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Sullenness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 sullenness sullenness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 morosity morosity spleen Sgm: N 1 churlishness churlishness &c.(discourtesy) 895 Sgm: N 1 irascibility irascibility &c. 901 …

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  • 116glower — (v.) mid 14c., to shine; c.1500, to stare with wide eyes, perhaps from a Scandinavian source (Cf. Norw. dialectal glora to glow ), from P.Gmc. base *glo (see GLOW (Cf. glow)), root of O.E. glowan to glow, which influenced the spelling. Or perhaps …

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  • 117glower — [[t]gla͟ʊə(r)[/t]] glowers, glowering, glowered VERB If you glower at someone or something, you look at them angrily. [V at n] He glowered at me but said nothing... He glowered and glared, but she steadfastly refused to look his way. [Also V… …

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  • 118frowning — frown·ing || fraÊŠnɪŋ adj. showing displeasure or anger; scowling, glowering fraÊŠn n. scowl, displeased angry look v. wrinkle one s brow in displeasure or anger, scowl, glower …

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  • 119glower — [ glaʊə] verb have an angry or sullen look on one s face; scowl. noun an angry or sullen look. Derivatives glowering adjective gloweringly adverb Origin C15: perh. a Scots var. of dialect glore, or from obs. glow to stare , both possibly of Scand …

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  • 120glum — a. Sullen, moody, sulky, morose, sour, crabbed, crusty, grum, glowering, frowning, spleeny, cross grained …

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