He knocked again, and when she turned he frowned and shooed her once more.

NEWYORKER: Brooklyn Circle

When he saw me watching him, he grinned suddenly, then frowned and jerked his head away.

NEWYORKER: Miracle Polish

"It's kind of frowned on, " he told the magazine.

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He looked at his watch and frowned.

NEWYORKER: Idols

Being a Quaker, his bankruptcy was frowned upon to say the least, and he was excluded from the Religious Society of Friends.

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It was he who encouraged her to argue at the dinner table (conduct frowned on at the Convent of the Faithful Virgin, where she went to school).

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When Spender himself published earlier editions of his collected poems, he was careful to edit out his immature work, and even to re-write pieces that his maturer self frowned upon.

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