Frown
To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.
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Frown Quotations
A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.
Ovid
The world goes up and the world goes down, the sunshine follows the rain; and yesterday's sneer and yesterday's frown can never come over again.
Charles Kingsley
Beauty comes from a life well lived. If you've lived well, your smile lines are in the right places, and your frown lines aren't too bad, what more do you need?
Jennifer Garner
When Fortune smiles, I smile to think how quickly she will frown.
Robert Southwell
Why should we strive, with cynic frown, to knock their fairy castles down?
Eliza Cook
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Frown Translations
frown in Italian is disapprovare
frown in Norwegian is rynke
frown in Swedish is rynka pannan
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