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Significados de sullenness em inglês

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

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Examples for "sourness"
Examples for "sourness"
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Despite the sourness of the moment, he was pleased with Ruth herself.
Crown of Slaves
2
Such a continual contrariety irritates and stirs up sourness in the heart.
The Autobiography of Madame Guyon
3
They all concur in calling sweetness pleasant, and sourness and bitterness unpleasant.
The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to Prose, Vol. IV (...
4
Breakfast did, in fact, take some of the sourness out of me.
Dexter in the Dark
5
The vanilla can take away from the sourness, which is fairly subtle.
The cook's illustrated how-to-cook library
1
Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
2
Yes, May thought, it was moroseness; he was unhappy, and no wonder.
A Venetian June
3
Nine-tenths of all loneliness, sensitiveness, despondency, moroseness, are connected with personal interests.
For Auld Lang Syne: A Book of Friendship
4
That intense, brooding moroseness, that wormwood hatred, does not often understand itself.
The Life of the Fields
5
The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness.
A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 / Being a Continuation of the Pers...
1
They need to learn early to deal with the sulkiness of the male.
Priest
2
I found Alicia blushing, and Mrs. Baggs impenetrably wrapped up in dignified sulkiness.
A Rogue's Life
3
My conceit and sulkiness died in that storm, as did many another thing.
Painted Windows
4
If he persecuted the Tories, their sulkiness would infallibly be turned into fury.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
5
His sulkiness was breaking down and he was showing some agitation.
The Eternal City
1
There's only so much glumness a secretary of state for health can take.
The Guardian
2
For in him glumness was a sign that he recognised defeat.
The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns
3
But now, her aggressive, menacing, uncommunicative glumness was prolonged for days and days.
The Torrent (Entre Naranjos)
4
A boy your age shouldn't have any problems that would cause such glumness.
The Forest Monster of Oz
5
Try it out and notice how it lifts you up out of your glumness.
The Irish Times
Uso de sullenness em inglês
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
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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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