Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: glaring
IPA transcription: [ɡl'ɛɹɪŋ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: blazing, blinding, dazzling, fulgent, glaring, glary
    Meaning: shining intensely; "the blazing sun"; "blinding headlights"; "dazzling snow"; "fulgent patterns of sunlight"; "the glaring sun"
  • Synonyms: crying(a), egregious, flagrant, glaring, gross, rank
    Meaning: conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible; "a crying shame"; "an egregious lie"; "flagrant violation of human rights"; "a glaring error"; "gross ineptitude"; "gross injustice"; "rank treachery"
Usage examples
  • Disfigured by glaring faults
  • When the nose becomes dry, and the eye restless and glaring, give belladonna.
  • And he sat up in silence glaring round; for his hands were unaccustomed to be idle.
  • The legislator cannot plead ignorance as an excuse for upholding a glaring iniquity.
  • Louise hesitated, and looked from Miss Jane to Patsy, and back again. They were glaring upon each other like two gorgons.
  • Scarcely had he disappeared in the mist before, panting after him, with open mouth and glaring eyes, there darted a huge beast.
  • His dark eyes, glaring out of the white mask of his face, were full of horror and astonishment as he gazed from Sir Henry to me.
  • At the words, the old horse arose with a scramble like thunder, shot his angry head and glaring eye over into Ruby's stall, and said--
  • That man with the two-dollar panama and the glaring spectacles is one of the greatest judges that ever adorned the bench of Missinaba County.
  • Ned was glaring at him ferociously, at the same time struggling to keep back the laughter that rose to his lips because of Stacy's sharp retort.