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- adjective Indicative of, or characterised by a
scowl .
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Examples
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True to form, Gallo's drama puts the i in solipsism (and then dots it with a scowly face).
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Like, wouldn't it be cool if Machete, a Mexican federale played by the menacingly scowly Trejo, attacked a drug lord's headquarters, chopped off the hand of a guy with a gun in it, then picked up the gun, and used the severed hand to squeeze the trigger?
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Palermo and scowly Erin Kaplan still hate each other and Joe Zee is tired, very tired of all of this.
Verena von Pfetten: The City Season Premiere: Kelly Cutrone Makes Us Cry 2010
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Like, wouldn't it be cool if Machete, a Mexican federale played by the menacingly scowly Trejo, attacked a drug lord's headquarters, chopped off the hand of a guy with a gun in it, then picked up the gun, and used the severed hand to squeeze the trigger?
Marshall Fine: Movie Review: Machete Marshall Fine 2010
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Palermo and scowly Erin Kaplan still hate each other and Joe Zee is tired, very tired of all of this.
Verena von Pfetten: The City Season Premiere: Kelly Cutrone Makes Us Cry 2010
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Like, wouldn't it be cool if Machete, a Mexican federale played by the menacingly scowly Trejo, attacked a drug lord's headquarters, chopped off the hand of a guy with a gun in it, then picked up the gun, and used the severed hand to squeeze the trigger?
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She fell out with the Blairites, refusing to take part in their petty image games (once glamorous, she is now a scowly old boiler with a voice like black treacle).
Beyond Their Range 2010
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Palermo and scowly Erin Kaplan still hate each other and Joe Zee is tired, very tired of all of this.
Verena von Pfetten: 'The City' Season Premiere: Kelly Cutrone Makes Us Cry 2010
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Palermo and scowly Erin Kaplan still hate each other and Joe Zee is tired, very tired of all of this.
Verena von Pfetten: 'The City' Season Premiere: Kelly Cutrone Makes Us Cry 2010
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His scowly little temper tantrum this morning, complaining about the media's focus on "phony issues" like lipstick on a pig, was pathetic.
Enough with the pigs, fish, snakes, and lambs... here come the wolves! Ann Althouse 2008
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