Loweringly

Quick meaning: Loweringly is an adverb meaning (dated) In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.

Meaning

(dated) In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.

Example Sentences

Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun’s rays[…]

He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt and his punishment great, and knows that he can find no words.

As he stood, loweringly phlegmatic as any caged hate, his peering eyes and snarling lip would occasionally lift themselves together, not towards the glittering lord of destinies on the dais, but towards his henchman, the Greek, who would answer the challenge with a stare of serene and opulent contempt.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gloomingly, gloomily, cloudedly, downcastly, gloomfully, blackly.

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