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Glaring

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A glare is a facial expression showing disapproval, fierceness and/or hostility. In some cultures, glaring is considered offensive. A glare may be induced by anger or frustration.

Visually, a glaring person tends to have their eyes fixed and heavily focused on a subject. This can sometimes be considered synonymous to staring but, in most cases, staring is caused due to curiosity and lasts only for a short duration, whereas glaring is caused due to contempt and lasts for a relatively longer duration.

Uses and examples

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Many people glare at a subject to express disapproval of the physical nature of the subject or ideas that may be expressed by the subject.

Glaring is often used as a simile, like: "Glaring like mad (Aristophanes), Glaring like two gaunt wolves with a famished brood (Mathilde Blind) ... [or] Glaring like a Lion in a cage (O. Henry)."[1] Glaring can be a metaphor, as used in Western esotericism terms, and is Hexagram 52.[2] "Glaring" is used in legal cases to mean blatant, obvious, "threatening", "dangerous", or knowingly,[3] or together in arguments as "glaring and shocking".[4]

Possibly the most common clichés for the past century using glare are "glaring falsehood" and "glaring absurdity",[5] and "glaring and shocking."[4]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ Wilstach, Frank Jenners (1917). A Dictionary of Similes. Little, Brown. p. 174. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  2. ^ Gotshalk, Richard (1999). Divination, order, and the Zhouyi. Bloomsbury Academic. pp. 281–282. ISBN 9780761813156. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  3. ^ Shaw v. Kansas City, 196 S.W. 1091 (Supreme Court of Missouri 1917).
  4. ^ a b Burnstine, Henry C. (1934). Supreme Court Appellate Division-First Department: Brief for Respondent Buff Realty Corp. pp. 41, 50, 53–54, 103. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
  5. ^ Crabb, George; Finley, John Huston (1917). Crabb's English Synonymes. Grosset & Dunlap. p. 382. Retrieved June 23, 2025.
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  • The dictionary definition of glare at Wiktionary