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单词 louring
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Definition of louring in English:

louring

(also lowering)
adjective ˈlaʊərɪŋ
  • (of the sky) dark and threatening.

    a day of louring cloud
    Example sentencesExamples
    • The late watercolour of Stonehenge, with a louring sky relieved by a double rainbow, is one of his most dramatic illustrations of this idea.
    • A breeze touched the white stone like a blind man finding his way and the lowering sky began to shift.
    • At William Henry Harrison's March inauguration in 1841, he stepped to the podium without hat or overcoat, under a louring sky, his trouserlegs flapping in the bitter wind, and delivered the longest address on record.

Derivatives

  • louringly

  • adverbˈlaʊərɪŋliˈlaʊrɪŋli
    • He entered, eyeing the tutor suspiciously and loweringly.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • That is the ugliest, most loweringly brutal-looking theatre I ever remember seeing.
      • When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt little and his punishment great, and knows that he can find no words.
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