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Frown on   /fraʊn ɑn/   Listen
Frown on

verb
1.
Look disapprovingly upon.  Synonym: frown upon.






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"Frown on" Quotes from Famous Books



... him with a dissatisfied frown on her face. "I wish you would speak," she said to him under her breath; and then she began again herself with her accustomed volubility: "Oh, yes, I married. That was what was expected of me. Now, my brother when ...
— The Heavenly Twins • Madame Sarah Grand

... and faced him now with an impatient gesture of the hands. Some expression on her face, the set of her mouth, the horse-shoe frown on her forehead gave her a fleeting resemblance to her father, a resemblance that ...
— The Black Pearl • Mrs. Wilson Woodrow

... was determined to know. She had noted the frown on her husband's face, and gathered from it that he was ...
— Grey Town - An Australian Story • Gerald Baldwin

... little to repay you for your trouble in this contemptible THING, sir,' replied Slurk, bestowing a Satanic frown on Pott. ...
— The Pickwick Papers • Charles Dickens

... once or twice, as if he were on the point of hailing us to know what we were palavering about; but something seemed to change his intention, so he refrained from calling out, as I expected, although he glowered down on Jorrocks and I, with a frown on his freckly sandy-haired face, "as if he could eat us both up without salt," as the boatswain said, on my pointing ...
— On Board the Esmeralda - Martin Leigh's Log - A Sea Story • John Conroy Hutcheson


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