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| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Derivation | glumness |
Examples of glum
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Still, despite the glum numbers, St. Louis banks remain profitable on the whole.
From the stltoday.com
In hushed boardrooms, glum customers and brokers no longer spoke about Viet Nam.
From the time.com
This is glum news if you feel the point of the county is to offer top-notch pay.
From the jsonline.com
The walls were left blank, leaving the exhibition feeling cold and looking glum.
From the bloomberg.com
It definitely works in our advantage that is it kind of a dreary and glum place.
From the usatoday.com
Plenty of Americans, some glum, some relieved, have reached the same conclusion.
From the economist.com
It was, all around, a glum day for the advocates of weaker financial regulation.
From the dealbook.nytimes.com
The main shopping street had become a glum passageway of shuttered storefronts.
From the washingtonpost.com
It was quite a contrast to the glum atmosphere it was on Saturday after a loss.
From the sltrib.com
- Moody and melancholic
- Dark: showing a brooding ill humor; "a dark scowl"; "the proverbially dour New England Puritan"; "a glum, hopeless shrug"; "he sat in moody silence"; "a morose and unsociable manner"; "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven; "a sour temper"; "a sullen crowd"
- (glumly) dourly: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"
- In Germanic paganism, the indigenous religion of the ancient Germanic peoples that inhabited Germanic Europe, there were a number of different gods and goddesses. ...
- (The Glums) Take It From Here (often referred to as TIFH, pronounced -- and sometimes humorously spelt -- "TIFE") was a British radio comedy programme broadcast by the BBC between 1948 and 1960. ...
- Sad, despondent
- (Claimed to be an attendant of Frigg. Source unknown.)
- This is the resident chat golem of NEaB chat.
