{{short description|Facial expression}} {{refimprove |date=June 2025}} thumb|A man glaring at something off-screen 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==
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)."<ref>{{cite book|page=174|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zf8TAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Glaring%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA174|title=A Dictionary of Similes|first=Frank Jenners |last=Wilstach|year=1917|publisher=Little, Brown|access-date=June 23, 2025}}</ref> Glaring can be a metaphor, as used in Western esotericism terms, and is Hexagram 52.<ref>{{cite book|pages=281–282|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ywgaAQAAIAAJ&q=%22Glaring%22+-wikipedia|title=Divination, order, and the Zhouyi|first=Richard |last=Gotshalk|year=1999|publisher=Bloomsbury Academic|isbn=9780761813156|access-date=June 23, 2025}}</ref> "Glaring" is used in legal cases to mean blatant, obvious, "threatening", "dangerous", or knowingly,<ref>{{cite court |litigants=Shaw v. Kansas City|vol=196|reporter=S.W.|opinion=1091|court=Supreme Court of Missouri |date=1917|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MY87AAAAIAAJ&dq=%22Glaring%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA1099|access-date=June 23, 2025}}</ref> or together in arguments as "glaring and shocking".<ref name=Buff>{{cite book|title=Supreme Court Appellate Division-First Department: Brief for Respondent Buff Realty Corp.|first=Henry C. |last=Burnstine|date=1934|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QymdjL4pO_QC&dq=%22Glaring%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA53|pages=41, 50, 53-54, 103|access-date=June 23, 2025}}</ref>
Possibly the most common clichés for the past century using glare are "glaring falsehood" and "glaring absurdity",<ref>{{cite book|page=382|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VqIZAAAAYAAJ&dq=%22Glaring%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA382|title=Crabb's English Synonymes|first1=George |last1=Crabb|first2=John Huston|last2=Finley|year=1917|publisher=Grosset & Dunlap|access-date=June 23, 2025}}</ref> and "glaring and shocking."<ref name=Buff />
== See also == * Frown * Sneer
==References== {{reflist}}
==External links== *{{Wiktionary-inline|glare}}
Category:Facial expressions