Sullenness
['sʌlənnis]
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Moroseness, moodiness, sourness, churlishness, spleen, sulkiness, ill temper, bad blood.[2]. Gloominess, sombreness, dismalness.
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Examples
- He was a coward, from head to foot; and showed his dastardly nature through his sullenness and mortification, as much as at any time of his mean life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- That's just what I do mean, returned Trenor, his bluster sinking to sullenness under her look. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- And on them there seemed to float a film of disintegration, a sort of misery and sullenness, like oil on water. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- Why, what you told of-- I didn't tell you anything, said Cassy, with dogged sullenness. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
- I will take it, Pablo told him, and in his sullenness there was a sadness that was disturbing to Robert Jordan. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Editor: Val