(adj) showing a brooding ill humor; ; ; ; ; ; - Bruce Bliven, Syn. moody, dour, saturnine, sour, sullen, morose, glum, glowering, Example:a dark scowl; the proverbially dour New England Puritan; a glum, hopeless shrug; he sat in moody silence; a morose and unsociable manner; a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius; a sour temper; a sullen crowd
v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Glowered p. pr. & vb. n. Glowering. ] [ Cf. Gloar. ] to look intently; to stare angrily or with a scowl. Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster ]
[にらむ, niramu] (v5m, vt) (1) to glare at; to scowl at; to glower at; (2) to stare intensely at; to examine carefully; (3) to estimate; to guess; to suspect; to judge; (4) (often as 睨まれる) (See 睨まれる) to keep an eye on someone (e.g. a suspicious or untrustworthy person); to watch; (5) to take account of; to take into consideration; (P)