What is another word for frowns?

Pronunciation: [fɹˈa͡ʊnz] (IPA)

When we think of synonyms for the word "frowns", the first word that may come to mind is "scowls". This term refers to a facial expression often associated with anger or disapproval. "Grimaces" is another synonym that conveys a facial expression that suggests discomfort or pain. "Glares" may also be used to describe a piercing or angry look given by someone who is unhappy or displeased. "Pouts" is a synonym that refers to a sullen or petulant expression that often involves protruding the lips. Lastly, "squints" may be used to describe a tight-lipped expression that suggests skepticism or suspicion.

What are the hypernyms for Frowns?

A hypernym is a word with a broad meaning that encompasses more specific words called hyponyms.

Usage examples for Frowns

The tentative overtures, the timid looks or glances, the humility with which less spirited women propitiate an injured deity were foreign to her nature; but equally she was not calloused, as many women are, to conjugal frowns.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Maclaughlin gave her one or two frowns; but she had taken the bit in her teeth; and it was soon decided that she was to have her way.
"The Locusts' Years"
Mary Helen Fee
Learn that smiles and good humor in the home bring happiness, and iron out the frowns and check the mean impulses arising within us.
"Dollars and Sense"
Col. Wm. C. Hunter

Famous quotes with Frowns

  • If fortune favors you do not be elated; if she frowns do not despond.
    Ausonius
  • To-day, in snow array'd, stern winter rules The ravag'd plain—Anon the teeming earth Unlocks her stores, and spring adorns the year: And shall not we—while fate, like winter, frowns, Expect revolving bliss?
    Tobias Smollett
  • Her very frowns are fairer far Than smiles of other maidens are.
    Hartley Coleridge
  • "We simply gow up. In Florence, at age fifty-four, I was a brash youth. Had I known the Duse was there her poet chap might have found dangerous competition, ha-ha. The only trouble is that now, nearing eighty, I keep discovering that damned war has made the world older than I. The world frowns now on youth in a vacuum, it insists youth be turned-to, utilized, exploited. No time for pranks. No more Vheissus."
    Thomas Pynchon
  • A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell — mouths mercy, and invented hell — mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!
    Mark Twain

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