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beetle-browed

[ beet-l-broud ]

adjective

  1. having heavy projecting eyebrows.
  2. scowling or sullen.


beetle-browed

adjective

  1. having bushy or overhanging eyebrows
  2. sullen in appearance; scowling
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of beetle-browed1

1325–75; Middle English bitel-browed, probably with bitel sharp(-edged), Old English *bitel ( beetle 1 ); brow, -ed 3
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A beetle-browed veteran of stage and screen, Mr. Constantine appeared in a half-dozen Broadway plays and more than 180 movies and television shows.

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He’s not a beetle-browed OK boomer sweating it out in a corporate job and on a Peloton.

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One was the conviction of the stocky, beetle-browed Hungarian physicist that the lethargic pace of thermonuclear research had placed the United States at the mercy of the Soviet Union.

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Mr. Carter, who seemed less imposing and beetle-browed than on screen, was sitting on a dainty chair in a small room filled with chunky film equipment and props.

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A close-up of this beetle-browed artist, then in her 70s, imitating with uncanny verisimilitude a crying, chuckling and gurgling infant, it’s hilarious.

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