beetle-browed
Americanadjective
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having heavy projecting eyebrows.
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scowling or sullen.
adjective
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having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
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sullen in appearance; scowling
Etymology
Origin of beetle-browed
1325–75; Middle English bitel-browed, probably with bitel sharp(-edged), Old English *bitel ( beetle 1 ); brow, -ed 3
Example Sentences
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Diminutive and wiry, with mournful, beetle-browed eyes and a raspy tenor voice, Mr. Aznavour lacked the rakish sex appeal and ebullience of chanteurs such as Maurice Chevalier and Yves Montand.
From Washington Post • Oct. 1, 2018
There he is, a burly, beetle-browed man of 60, handing out hot tea on the beaches at Lesbos, comforting a traumatised woman inside a makeshift studio and cooking kebabs on a barbecue at a dusty refugee camp.
From The Guardian • Sep. 17, 2017
He has, Mr. Gardiner writes, “the look of a man etched with life’s travails — beetle-browed, with shallow eye sockets, asymmetrical eyes and slightly droopy eyelids.”
From New York Times • Apr. 29, 2015
And Harrison Ford, who at first seemed to be overacting, grew on me as the beetle-browed, growling Branch Rickey.
From Slate • Apr. 12, 2013
Neither my new long reach nor Chapter Eleven’s beetle-browed concentration was sufficient to counter Milton’s wicked spin or his “killer shot” which left red marks on our chests, through our clothes.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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