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looks daggers

looks daggers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look daggers.

Meaning of look daggers

Verb

look daggers (third-person singular simple present looks daggers, present participle looking daggers, simple past and past participle looked daggers)

  1. (intransitive) Often followed by at: to stare in a disapproving, severe, or threatening manner, especially without speaking.
    • Before him set the grim baron, with a face worthy of the father of such a daughter, and looking daggers and rat's bane.1835, [Washington Irving], “Abbotsford”, in Abbotsford and Newstead Abbey (The Crayon Miscellany; no. 2), Philadelphia, Pa.: [Henry Charles] Carey, [Isaac] Lea, & Blanchard, →OCLC, pages 40–41

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What is looks daggers the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Looks daggers is the third-person singular simple present indicative of look daggers.

Words near looks daggers in the dictionary

  1. looks away
  2. looks back
  3. looks before one leaps
  4. looks beyond
  5. looks can be deceiving
  6. looks daggers
  7. looks down
  8. looks down on
  9. looks down one's nose
  10. looks down upon
  11. looks for

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