Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adverb In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adverb In a lowering manner; with cloudiness or threatening gloom.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adverb in a menacing or scowling way

Etymologies

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lowering +‎ -ly

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Examples

  • The three couples then twirled most elegantly around the room—although he was loweringly aware that Beth was the only female counting out the time—until Graham interrupted with a sonorous announcement that callers had arrived.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • The three couples then twirled most elegantly around the room—although he was loweringly aware that Beth was the only female counting out the time—until Graham interrupted with a sonorous announcement that callers had arrived.

    Shameless KAREN ROBARDS 2010

  • He took it, standing at the littered bar, and looked loweringly at a man who stood where Riderhood had stood that early morning.

    Our Mutual Friend 2004

  • Indeed, she was loweringly aware that not one of them measured up to Jack Lester and that whenever they gave signs of wanting to fix their interest, she felt an immediate aversion for their company.

    A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

  • Indeed, she was loweringly aware that not one of them measured up to Jack Lester and that whenever they gave signs of wanting to fix their interest, she felt an immediate aversion for their company.

    A Lady of Expectations Laurens, Stephanie 1995

  • A green suit humped up from the ruck, the huge helmet swinging loweringly towards him, the visor up and the face­plate swung open.

    Behold the Stars Bulmer, Kenneth, 1921- 1965

  • He stared loweringly at his father and devotedly at Simon Begg, who merely looked bored and slightly worried.

    Death of a Fool Marsh, Ngaio, 1895-1982 1956

  • The sun was no longer visible; a chilling wind had sprung up from the east; dull gray clouds hung loweringly overhead; a close mist, as of coming rain, wrapped the landscape as in a mantle.

    Two Little Travellers A Story for Girls Frances Browne Arthur

  • He looked loweringly at me for a moment from under his shaggy eyebrows.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843 Various

  • I placed the wallflower in the open window, where a ray of sunshine bid it welcome; the birds were singing around, the sky had cleared up, and the day, which began so loweringly, had become bright.

    The French Immortals Series — Complete Various

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