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Meanings of sullenness in inglés
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Examples for "sourness"
Examples for "sourness"
1
Despite the sourness of the moment, he was pleased with Ruth herself.
2
Such a continual contrariety irritates and stirs up sourness in the heart.
3
They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant.
4
Breakfast did, in fact, take some of the sourness out of me.
5
The vanilla can take away from the sourness, which is fairly subtle.
1
Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.
2
Yes, May thought, it was moroseness; he was unhappy, and no wonder.
3
Nine-tenths of all loneliness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests.
4
That intense, brooding moroseness, that wormwood hatred, does not often understand itself.
5
The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness.
1
They need to learn early to deal with the sulkiness of the male.
2
I found Alicia blushing, and Mrs. Baggs impenetrably wrapped up in dignified sulkiness.
3
My conceit and sulkiness died in that storm, as did many another thing.
4
If he persecuted the Tories, their sulkiness would infallibly be turned into fury.
5
His sulkiness was breaking down and he was showing some agitation.
1
There's only so much glumness a secretary of state for health can take.
2
For in him glumness was a sign that he recognised defeat.
3
But now, her aggressive, menacing, uncommunicative glumness was prolonged for days and days.
4
A boy your age shouldn't have any problems that would cause such glumness.
5
Try it out and notice how it lifts you up out of your glumness.
Usage of sullenness in inglés
1
The prizefighter showed both in face and manner a certain stiff sullenness.
2
Some sullenness of temperament seemed to find expression in the fellow's movements.
3
These words did not dissipate the sullenness which her looks had betrayed.
4
His bloodless face and dim eyes showed no feeling beyond indifferent sullenness.
5
A frown of sullenness or discontent is but one degree less hateful.
6
A premonition of his impending fate had already produced a certain sullenness.
7
Mrs. Percival lifted out one little tray after another with growing sullenness.
8
He had grown much gentler, and sadness had partially displaced his sullenness.
9
His sullenness having been overcome, he became a devoted and apt pupil.
10
A star glide, a single frantic sullenness, a single financial grass greediness.
11
Jim now resented the woman's intrusion upon him with a cublike sullenness.
12
The man's expression took upon itself a mask of disinterest, almost sullenness.
13
His face was wooden, with a trace of sullenness around the mouth.
14
For respect was substituted insolence; for alacrity, sullenness; for prompt obedience, impertinent intrusion.
15
His sullenness and discontent were but the outward signs of the inward ferment.
16
Bunce had knitted his brows; his heavy lips took on a fretful sullenness.
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