What's the difference between frown and outfrown?

Frown


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To contract the brow in displeasure, severity, or sternness; to scowl; to put on a stern, grim, or surly look.
  • (v. i.) To manifest displeasure or disapprobation; to look with disfavor or threateningly; to lower; as, polite society frowns upon rudeness.
  • (v. t.) To repress or repel by expressing displeasure or disapproval; to rebuke with a look; as, frown the impudent fellow into silence.
  • (n.) A wrinkling of the face in displeasure, rebuke, etc.; a sour, severe, or stere look; a scowl.
  • (n.) Any expression of displeasure; as, the frowns of Providence; the frowns of Fortune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The BBC traditionally frowns on its presenters, especially those in BBC News, using columns to comment on news and current affairs.
  • (2) As soon as I called them and was like, 'Hey guys, it's OK, I'm not smoking meth or anything,' it was OK." He adds, frowning: "I don't really know why it happened… My girlfriend told me everyone had been saying, [he puts on a sulky voice] 'Man, Mac's shows aren't crazy any more.'
  • (3) Indeed, such parochialism would be downright frowned upon by today's World Cup mentality, considering that both the official anthem and slogan this time round is the typically Fifa-ishly nonsensical, and distinctly Benetton-esque, "We Are One".
  • (4) By then Wenger's frown lines had deepened in the wake of some heavy limping on Mikel Arteta's part.
  • (5) The result is that society places a high value on conformity and expressions of individuality are frowned upon; there is a strong emphasis on upholding social “norms” and keeping up appearances – in public if not necessarily in private.
  • (6) They’re re-education centres for those who’ve lost their way.” Viktor frowns: “Why are you so interested in gulags?
  • (7) His bastard Ramsay has shown his colors (whatever color is for sadism), but Roose – who abstains from alcohol and only offers a smirk at Lady Stark here, a frown with Jaime Lannister there – is still a cypher.
  • (8) But I hadn’t realised until relatively late in my obsession how other fellow non-U-ers frowned on it too.
  • (9) The sale or production of pornography in India remains illegal and taboo, and sex outside marriage is frowned upon.
  • (10) Working with both hands and frowning at the monitor, Pring reduces the size of her stomach by 90% by creating a “stomach pouch”, a stapled-off part the size of an egg.
  • (11) Even without this legislation, the law generally frowns upon what Rasch calls “self help”.
  • (12) Patients who are candidates for this type of surgery include those who have a long forehead, a short forehead, deep wrinkles, or thinner skin, as well as patients with deep frown lines and hyperactive corrugator muscles.
  • (13) There are other points of comparison – the instinct for PR moments, the actorly frown and catch in the voice, the appealing family pictures – but these are the essential ones.
  • (14) She is frowning on the hostile takeover bid from Spain's ACS (which in Florentino Pérez just so happens to share a chairman with Real Madrid) for Hochtief, Germany's biggest builder.
  • (15) Cycle furiously while bent over your handlebars with a deep frown!
  • (16) When some Soviet officials violated that principle, it was frowned upon.
  • (17) A novel feature is accurate compensation for 'smile' or 'frown' profiles as well as for the possible splay or curvature of lanes.
  • (18) Not for the last time during our meeting, Black Francis frowns and nods briskly, in a way which suggests that something I find a bit peculiar doesn't seem particularly peculiar to him.
  • (19) With David T Neal from the University of Southern California she recently published a paper entitled "Embodied Emotion Perception: Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modulates Emotional Perception Accuracy" , which found that using Botox – a neurotoxin injected into muscles to reduce frown lines – reduces a person's ability to empathise with others.
  • (20) He frowned on the kind of rampant drug use that characterised The Warehouse's big competitor, The Music Box: "I wouldn't allow those type of things to happen in my club," he told one interviewer, firmly.

Outfrown


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To frown down; to overbear by frowning.

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