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frowningly en · ADV

Etymology

From frowning + -ly.

Meanings

1. While or as if frowning
   • She looked at him frowningly. 1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpre:
   • "And by what name is he known?" frowningly inquired the king. 1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives:
   • 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. 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 121:
   • "I'm sorry to hear you say that," said Wade, frowningly. 1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl:

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