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sullen::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | heavy, lowering, threatening |
| Derivation | sullenness |
Examples of sullen
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Beyond the edge of the fields the sullen haze hung over the earth and sky alike.
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Sullen, sluggish, and self-involved as any teenager, Karl is not a natural hero.
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Nor is it walled off from its neighbours, now hosting millions of sullen exiles.
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He's a kid with the ability to put a sullen but seductive face on an open heart.
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Their ferocity was merely curbed, and there was a sullen dignity to their defeat.
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I remember feeling tired and sullen a good deal of the time when I was in school.
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Sullen crowds milled in the streets, and people eyed each other with suspicion.
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When the clock finally ran out the Jets stood on their sideline, sullen and still.
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Set in the Ninth Century, the books feature a virile, attractively sullen warrior.
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- 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"
- Heavy: darkened by clouds; "a heavy sky"
- (sullenly) dourly: in a sullen manner; "he sat in his chair dourly"
- (sullenness) moroseness: a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
- (sullenness) sulkiness: a sullen moody resentful disposition
- Sullen may refer to: * Sullens Swiss municipality
- Sullens is a municipality of the canton of Vaud in Switzerland, located in the district of Cossonay.
- Having a brooding ill temper; sulky; Dismal; somber; Sluggish; slow
- (sullenness) The state or quality of being sullen; The result or product of being sullen
