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(LOU-uhr-ing)

This week's theme: Words to describe people

adjective: Sullen, frowning, gloomy.

[From Middle English louring, from louren (to frown, lurk).]

"Miss Deane, with a lowering frown of her blackened eye-brows, found occasion to reprimand the elderly parlour-maid."
John Davys Beresford; The Looking-Glass; 1922.

See more usage examples of lowering in Vocabulary.com's dictionary.

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Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste ... Let's put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back. -John Ross

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