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Значения термина sulkiness на английском

каталонский
emmurriament

A feeling of sulky resentment.

emmurriament

A sullen moody resentful disposition.

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Examples for "sullenness"
Examples for "sullenness"
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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
5
A frown of sullenness or discontent is but one degree less hateful.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
1
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
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Knight spoke in an indescribable tone of bitterness that was almost moroseness.
A Pair of Blue Eyes
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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
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The cliff was huge, sombre; it had a terrible granite moroseness.
A Romany of the Snows, vol. 4 / Being a Continuation of the Pers...

A mood or display of sullen aloofness or withdrawal.

Использование термина sulkiness на английском
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They need to learn early to deal with the sulkiness of the male.
Priest
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I found Alicia blushing, and Mrs. Baggs impenetrably wrapped up in dignified sulkiness.
A Rogue's Life
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My conceit and sulkiness died in that storm, as did many another thing.
Painted Windows
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If he persecuted the Tories, their sulkiness would infallibly be turned into fury.
The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume ...
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His sulkiness was breaking down and he was showing some agitation.
The Eternal City
6
Their silence seemed to anger Lopez, for he upbraided them for their sulkiness.
Boy Scouts in Southern Waters; Or, Spaniard's Treasure Chest
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Although he had not realised it before, he preferred Dick's old uncompromising sulkiness.
The Silent Places
8
His ill-humour would all have passed away like a child's sulkiness, but that-Ah
Eleanor
9
He spoke of your unfortunate call, but said you bore the sulkiness very well.
Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis to John S. Dwight; Brook Farm...
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It turns me from bright to black, from lightness of spirits to extreme sulkiness.
McClure's Magazine, Vol. 6, No. 5, April, 1896
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The girl's eyes flew wider and hotter shame for her sulkiness stained her cheeks.
Then I'll Come Back to You
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Sacha loses some of his sulkiness to smile at Rodrigo.
The pretender's crown
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After some sulkiness at first Fred talked eagerly, if nervously.
The High School Pitcher; or, Dick & Co. on the Gridley Diamond
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By this time Cecil's anger was settling down into sulkiness.
The Farringdons
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That meanest of all vices, the vice of sulkiness, had no existence in her nature.
The Black Robe
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He was in that state of highly respectful sulkiness which is peculiar to English servants.
The Woman in White
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