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Definition of Frown upon
1. Verb. Look disapprovingly upon.
Definition of Frown upon
1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) To disapprove (of). ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Frown Upon
Literary usage of Frown upon
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of Lorenzo de Medici, Called the Magnificent by William Roscoe, Thomas Roscoe (1847)
"... however things might go amiss and the world frown upon me, it would he a taste
for reading. Give a man this taste, and the means of gratifying it, ..."
2. The Assault on Humanism by Paul Shorey (1917)
"and a price our friends may not frown upon. No fitter beginning of this proposed
series could be made than with the republication of these sharp and ..."
3. The American and English Encyclopaedia of Law by David Shephard Garland, James Cockcroft, Lucius Polk McGehee, Charles Porterfield (1904)
"The courts always frown upon double taxation, and even in those jurisdictions
where the legislature is held to have power to impose it, such a construction ..."
4. Ohio Legal News (1896)
"... and no military power could frown upon her from But usurpation came in the
claim of taxation, and of legislation for the colonies in all cases ..."
5. The Jacquerie; Or, The Lady and the Page; an Historical Romance.: An by George Payne Rainsford James (1841)
"... alone in the room after the others left it; and, if one might judge by the
frown upon his brow, the subject of his meditations was not very pleasant. ..."
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