frowningly

English

Etymology

frowning +‎ -ly

Adverb

frowningly (comparative more frowningly, superlative most frowningly)

1. While or as if frowning
   • 1907, Erasmus W. Jones, The Young Captives‎^[1]:

     "And by what name is he known?" frowningly inquired the king.

   • 1909, Ralph Henry Barbour, The Lilac Girl‎^[2]:

     "I'm sorry to hear you say that," said Wade, frowningly.

   • 1913, Ethel May Dell, The Rocks of Valpre‎^[3]:

     She looked at him frowningly.

   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 121:

     This was to defeat Podson's urgent need of anybody's company to reprieve him from his own. He was constantly letting out a howl of exasperation with, "So help me Bob, Mudgy, you are a rude cow. Here have I been talking to you for half an hour and not a blinking word out of you." For which Bradly might, or might not, look frowningly round to locate a disturbance in the remote distance before returning to tonal trance again.