0 to look at someone or something with a very annoyed expression: --
The boy scowled at her and reluctantly followed her back into school.
1 a very annoyed expression: --
A bitter older woman who always seems to have a scowl on her face.
He need not scowl like that.
One never knows what his scowls mean.
I am asked to stop scowling.
Men with piercing eyes scowling at women.
We must have a feeling of happiness in all branches of industry so that when walking through a factory we see happy people and not scowling faces.
If they had, we should have been scowling at each other instead of smiling.
But if the picket consisted of a large number of men scowling and looking threatening, that undoubtedly would be a form of intimidation.