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Meanings of sullen in inglés
Sinónimos
Examples for "dark"
Examples for "dark"
1
They were buried in dust in the dark room in the clock-tower.
2
No, no; that would be luxurious; let us chat in the dark.
3
No, no; the man who is in the dark is in safety.
4
The leader is a dark-brown stallion; the mares are lighter in colour.
5
I'd felt dark power similar to this before today-similar ,butnot identical.
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However, Boxee emerges at sour times for Apple in its developer community.
2
Now we also see more secured loans, particularly home loans, turning sour.
3
Although the way we are currently behaving may sour her against us.
4
Use this flavorful sauce wherever you might normally use a sweet-and-sour sauce.
5
Refiners need heavier, sour grades for blending for diesel or other products.
1
And the overall result is a moody sophomore work long on ambition.
2
After Johann's sortie, however, Keiko became more moody, often quarreling with Beatrice.
3
The remainder of the day was passed by him in moody thought.
4
It is a moody monster not catalogued in the list of terrors.
5
Their ruler had seemed moody of late, and given to strange forebodings.
1
A trail ran through the woods; a trail singularly morose and unattractive.
2
The missionaries have in consequence been accused of being morose and narrow-minded.
3
The morose moon started up, a tragic hieroglyph in the passionless sky.
4
Even the animals, in their woven willow enclosures, appeared bedraggled and morose.
5
He was morose and disheartened; gloomy thoughts revolved behind his aching brow.
1
A glum, tired, downbeat group tonight, the bad news outweighing the good.
2
Slidell looked so glum, I let the grating command pass without comment.
3
His attitude, contradictory but somehow attractive-almostpiquant-wasone of glum good cheer.
4
Even the glum-faced stepson of the narrator roused up into some interest.
5
No burgers for a while. He looked glum as he said it.
1
Facebook Twitter Pinterest Fans gather to watch 'dour German second division football'.
2
The opening quarter-hour was dour with neither side taking a dominant role.
3
A dour deduction that Hamish reached, all by himself, just hours ago.
4
And you seem... well, somewhat more dour than I've seen you before.
5
The clinic was located in a dour Victorian hospital in central London.
1
It shows the dramatic image of Wordsworth emerging from a glowering landscape.
2
She came and sat on the table, looking a bit less glowering.
3
She was hurt, and a little glowering anger shone in her face.
4
But still he hesitated, glowering with suspicion; unwilling to trust them alone.
5
He lighted another cigar, beaming through the smoke on the glowering minister.
1
The old man smiled in his most saturnine fashion and sighed dismally.
2
Father Brown seemed rather to like the saturnine candour of the soldier.
3
The parrot edged along his knee and eyed him with saturnine affection.
4
A fleeting smile lighted up the saturnine gloom of his present mood.
5
Then if the result pleased him, a smile overspread his saturnine features.
Usage of sullen in inglés
1
But the Nabals are sullen; they are grumblers; they are never done.
2
It was not a sullen shrug; it only said he didn't know.
3
Two sullen crimson discs glowed in the black arch of the tunnel.
4
The stillness out of doors bespoke a sullen break in the storm.
5
Engines snorted in sullen labor, charging to and fro, aimlessly it appeared.
6
She found the town in confusion, the civilians bewildered, the soldiers sullen.
7
She looked sullen, confused, and unhappy-notconspicuously different from her normal look.
8
They landed; but the fearful, and ungrateful slaves continued sullen and forbidding.
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Once I got inside the house he treated me with sullen respect.
10
One evening they sat in sullen pride and anger by the fire.
11
Fauvette sank back on the divan and lay there in sullen defiance.
12
They are caught up in the sullen strife of their relentless life.
13
Jeff was heavy and sullen and dark and very serious in it.
14
I went in a sullen state, stunned and for the moment submissive.
15
For a long time La Barbée hesitated; then with a sullen air:
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The rain was falling heavily and the skies were sullen and gray.
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Sullen through the time
Sullen across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Less common