frownfully

comparative more frownfully · superlative most frownfully

1. In a frownful manner

   Nurse B, in contrast, frownfully wonders how such imbeciles could ever come to exist.

   2007, Paul Saka, How to Think about Meaning

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   Olive very quickly said, " A bat, dear," and winked frownfully through the leaves. We were in the Blenheim-orange tree — secure from any one creeping up behind.

   1909, The Pall Mall Magazine, volume 44