"frowningly" meaning in All languages combined

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Adverb [English]

Forms: more frowningly [comparative], most frowningly [superlative]
Etymology: From frowning + -ly. Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|frowning|ly}} frowning + -ly Head templates: {{en-adv}} frowningly (comparative more frowningly, superlative most frowningly)
  1. While or as if frowning
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          "ref": "1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpre:",
          "text": "She looked at him frowningly.",
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          "text": "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.",
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