This week's theme: words to describe people.

lowering (LOU-uhr-ing) adjective

   Sullen, frowning, gloomy.

[From Middle English louring, from louren (to frown, lurk).]

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-Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org)

  "Miss Deane, with a lowering frown of her blackened eye-brows, found
   occasion to reprimand the elderly parlour-maid."
   John Davys Beresford; The Looking-Glass; 1922.

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