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[ adjective ] showing a brooding ill humor

Examples

"a dark scowl" "the proverbially dour New England Puritan" "a glum, hopeless shrug" "in moody silence" "a morose and unsociable manner" "a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven "a sour temper"

Used in print

(Gerald Green, The Heartless Light....)

It was amazing how they had herded together for protection : an enormous matriarch in a quilted silk wrapper , rising from the breakfast_table ; a gross boy in his teens , shuffling in from the kitchen with a sandwich in his hands ; a girl in her twenties , fat and sullen , descending the marble staircase ; then all four gathering on the sofa to face the inquisitor .

(Bruce Palmer, "My Brother's Keeper", Many Are...)

The guards lowered their rifles and their rifles and peered at Watson with sullen , puzzled faces .

(Octavia Waldo, A Cup of the Sun....)

The eyes , blue and always somewhat downcast , possessed a sullen quality .

Related terms

ill-natured

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[ adjective ] darkened by clouds

Examples

"a heavy sky"

Related terms

cloudy

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[ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 24174
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