Beetle-browed
having heavy projecting eyebrows.
scowling or sullen.
historical examples
this pale, beetle-browed lady ought to have enjoined those to be timid who know how.
catholic world, vol. xi, april 1870-september 1870 various
you’re primitive and beetle-browed, but you’ve got what it takes.
the sky trap frank belknap long
and of all other women lean, hollow-eyed, old, beetle-browed women (saith he) are the most infectious.
the superst-tions of witchcraft howard williams
“or all three,” put in the beetle-browed man who was working next to zorzi.
marietta f. marion crawford
the rumbustious ogre has a hitherto undescribed, but quite imaginable, gap-toothed, beetle-browed ogress of a wife.
jaffery william j. locke
late that afternoon a beetle-browed and forbidding-looking individual entered brown’s office.
shadow, the mysterious detective police captain howard
another was a black-bearded, beetle-browed, hang-dog looking rascal.
the pacha of many tales frederick marryat
a beetle-browed, untidy individual was sitting just within the entrance to the cabaret, warming his toes at a charcoal brazier.
with wellington in spain f. s. brereton
he was just the proper foil for danilo’s thick-haired, beetle-browed, red-lipped personality.
the blood red dawn charles caldwell dobie
we have often wondered how one university could possibly corner the entire supply of treacherous and beetle-browed humanity.
pieces of hate heywood broun
adjective
having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
sullen in appearance; scowling
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