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Significados de sullenness em inglês

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

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