loweringly

In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.

Adverb

  1. In a lowering manner; menacingly; with cloudiness or gloom.
    • Ahab stood apart; and every time the tetering ship loweringly pitched down her bowsprit, he turned to eye the bright sun’s rays[…] - 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New...
    • He shambled along with bowed head, his brain in a tumult of agony and despair. When he looked loweringly up, quivering at each sound, his eyes had the expression of those of a criminal who thinks his guilt and his...
    • As he stood, loweringly phlegmatic as any caged hate, his peering eyes and snarling lip would occasionally lift themselves together, not towards the glittering lord of destinies on the dais, but towards his henchman,...

Origin

From lowering + -ly.

Forms

more loweringly most loweringly