scowl

Object

• face: According to the speed recorded the SID equipment will show either a smiling or scowling face.

Converse of object

• wear: Wear a smile and have friends; wear a scowl and have wrinkles.

Adjective modifier

• permanent: With a permanent scowl on her face and a swear word on her lips.
• serious: Sun Microsystems, however, put on a very serious scowl at a Media Summit held at its Menlo Park offices last week.
• angry: He turned, and just to look at his angry scowl, I realized that it would not be wise to carry on.

Modifying Another Word

• back: Rob smiled and pointed the electric tube at the man, who doubtless recognized its power, for he fell back scowling and trembling.
• just: His wife said nothing just scowled at him and the growing pile of empty sweet packets.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• down: Then we might imagine God up in heaven scowling down at us in disappointment.
• up: Dalziel was scowling up at his inspector now. What's gotten in to you, lad?

Used with why or when

• when: I therefore tried to get him to smile and not to scowl when any children were nearby.