frowningly

comparative more frowningly · superlative most frowningly

1. While or as if frowning.

   She looked at him frowningly.

   1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpre

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   "And by what name is he known?" frowningly inquired the king.

   1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives

   "I'm sorry to hear you say that," said Wade, frowningly.

   1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl

   This was to defeat Podson's urgent need of anybody's company to reprieve him from his own. He was constantly letting out a howl of exasperation with, "So help me Bob, Mudgy, you are a rude cow. Here have I been talking to you for half an hour and not a blinking word out of you." For which Bradly might, or might not, look frowningly round to locate a disturbance in the remote distance before returning to tonal trance again.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 121