An atmosphere of depression and melancholy.
A gloomy ill-tempered feeling.
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Examples for "sullenness "
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.
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 .
Quiet disappointment or sadness.
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 .
6 Unless endless gossiping and rudeness and glumness is a crime, in which case I should.'
7 SOCCER: Chelsea are so prosperous that even their glumness has a glossy sheen to it.
8 The silliness, the irritability, the glumness , the violence, the lust of men are given freer rein.
9 He remained solemn to the point of glumness .
10 But she was rather pleased at his glumness .
11 Abrahamson imbued the first six half-hour episodes of Normal People with the virtuosic glumness that is his trademark.
12 The discontent puzzles policymakers who have tried to ensure businesses and consumers don't turn their glumness into a reality.
14 But he looked very glum, and the glumness stuck to him even after he had dressed and had descended to dinner.
15 He sat disregarded at supper that evening, save by Valentina's ladies and the fool, who occasionally rallied him upon his glumness .
16 Arriving at Granger, for dinner, I find at the hotel a crest-fallen state of affairs somewhat similar to the glumness of Tacoma.
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