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Meanings of sullenness in English

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

Usage of sullenness in English
1
The prizefighter showed both in face and manner a certain stiff sullenness.
Steve Yeager
2
Some sullenness of temperament seemed to find expression in the fellow's movements.
Man-Size
3
These words did not dissipate the sullenness which her looks had betrayed.
Arthur Mervyn; Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
4
His bloodless face and dim eyes showed no feeling beyond indifferent sullenness.
Without Dogma: A Novel of Modern Poland
5
A frown of sullenness or discontent is but one degree less hateful.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
6
A premonition of his impending fate had already produced a certain sullenness.
Nobody's Man
7
Mrs. Percival lifted out one little tray after another with growing sullenness.
Jewel Weed
8
He had grown much gentler, and sadness had partially displaced his sullenness.
Donal Grant
9
His sullenness having been overcome, he became a devoted and apt pupil.
Tales from Bohemia
10
A star glide, a single frantic sullenness, a single financial grass greediness.
Tender Buttons / Objects—Food—Rooms
11
Jim now resented the woman's intrusion upon him with a cublike sullenness.
In the Roaring Fifties
12
The man's expression took upon itself a mask of disinterest, almost sullenness.
The Plunderer
13
His face was wooden, with a trace of sullenness around the mouth.
The maltese falcon
14
For respect was substituted insolence; for alacrity, sullenness; for prompt obedience, impertinent intrusion.
For the Term of His Natural Life
15
His sullenness and discontent were but the outward signs of the inward ferment.
Sowing Seeds in Danny
16
Bunce had knitted his brows; his heavy lips took on a fretful sullenness.
Thyrza
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