Object

• face: Father Brown looked him full in his frowning face.

• providence: Judge not the Lord by feeble sense, But trust Him for His grace, Behind a frowning providence He hides a smiling face.

Converse of object

• puzzle: Part 1 Chapter 1 - in which Four go through The Big Round Thing Sergeant Davis stared at the monitor with a puzzled frown.

• wear: None of them, she noticed, seemed to wear a frown.

Adjective modifier

• slight: She paced forward with a slight frown on her face.

• dark: Then with a dark frown on her face she turned to one of the two telephones beside her and picked up the receiver.

• deep: But his smile melted into a deep frown as he uttered the next few words wistfully.

• angry: Looking up from the white surface of the link table, Stephanie met Roger's angry frown with one of her own.

Modifies a noun

• line: For some, the eye starts to close first, for others, the smile or frown lines start to come back.

• :(: Smilies are keyboard characters used to convey an emotion, such as a smile: ) or a frown:(.

Modifying Another Word

• thoughtfully: He was frowning thoughtfully at three or four white pills or pellets that lay in a small tray beside a bottle of water.

• slightly: Obviously I went to little school then I went on to Aylesbury Grammar School, and there acting was slightly frowned upon.

• severely: Meanwhile, in school the use of regional dialects was severely frowned upon.

• heavily: The town names were changed in 1917 - but in 1915 the schools were closed, church services were heavily frowned upon.

• deeply: Setting is limited to about 12- 14 tables and they frown deeply on folk taking too long to eat thier meal.

• generally: Beacon in the Dark The term 'the Dark Ages' is generally frowned upon by modern scholars.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• upon: Shorts are frowned upon, whether for men or women.

• down: It wasn't that premarital sex was frowned down upon by my people, nor even disapproved of exactly.

Used with why or when

• when: But he frowned when he saw me and shook his head.

Preposition: of

• concentration: Deep lines on his forehead mark his frown of concentration.