beetle-browed

[ beet-l-broud ]

adjective
  1. having heavy projecting eyebrows.

  2. scowling or sullen.

Origin of beetle-browed

1
1325–75; Middle English bitel-browed, probably with bitel sharp(-edged), Old English *bitel (see beetle1); see brow, -ed3

Words Nearby beetle-browed

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How to use beetle-browed in a sentence

  • Late that afternoon a beetle-browed and forbidding-looking individual entered Brown's office.

    Shadow, the Mysterious Detective | Police Captain Howard
  • He was an iron-faced, beetle-browed, stern man, and this morning he did not seem to be in the best of tempers.

    A Christmas Mystery | William J. Locke
  • We have often wondered how one university could possibly corner the entire supply of treacherous and beetle-browed humanity.

    Pieces of Hate | Heywood Broun
  • It was a signal, though, for a thick-set beetle-browed young fellow to bounce in from the next room and curtly demand my business.

    The Long Day | Dorothy Richardson
  • I found it without difficulty—a long, low-fronted, beetle-browed farmhouse, lying back a meadow's length from the road.

British Dictionary definitions for beetle-browed

beetle-browed

adjective
  1. having bushy or overhanging eyebrows

  2. sullen in appearance; scowling

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