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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--lowering This week's theme: words to describe people. lowering (LOU-uhr-ing) adjective Sullen, frowning, gloomy. [From Middle English louring, from louren (to frown, lurk).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "Miss Deane, with a lowering frown of her blackened eye-brows, found occasion to reprimand the elderly parlour-maid." John Davys Beresford; The Looking-Glass; 1922. X-Bonus Underground nuclear testing, defoliation of the rain forests, toxic waste ... Let's put it this way: if the world were a big apartment, we wouldn't get our deposit back. -John Ross

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