sullenlyadv.
/ˈsʌlənli/, U.S. /ˈsələnli/ In a sullen manner.
1. With gloomy or morose ill-humour.
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the mind > emotion > anger > irascibility > ill humour > [adverb]
distemperatelya1398
thraftlya1578
darkly1597
moodily1611
mustily1620
distemperedlya1639
sullenly1650
morosely1654
sullen1718
grumly1727
ill-humouredly1795
sulkily1796
sumphishly1850
biliously1865
glumpily1865
farouchely1931
frumpily1934
1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine iii. 434 If any..sullenly say, with Judas Iscariot, To what purpose is this wast?
1668 J. Dryden Secret-love iii. i. 27 While jealous pow'r does sullenly o're spy.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 393 His book, Well chosen, and not sullenly perus'd In selfish silence, but imparted oft.
1841 C. Dickens Barnaby Rudge xvii. 25 ‘Give me meat and drink,’ he answered sullenly.
1879 Spectator 13 Sept. 1148 That if the Viceroy were only sufficiently persistent, Afghans, like Turks, would sullenly give way.
2. With sombre or gloomy aspect; with a dull or dismal sound.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > non-resonance > [adverb]
obstupely?a1425
dully1430
sullenlya1586
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adverb]
blackly1563
sullenlya1586
gloomily1727
darkly1760
murkily1830
a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) iii. x. sig. Nn6 The colours for the grounde were so well chosen, neither sullenly darke, nor glaringly lightsome.
1794 A. Radcliffe Myst. of Udolpho IV. xiii. 286 The wind..groaned sullenly among the lofty branches above.
1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands I. 295 The volcanic fires..smoulder sullenly at the present day.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xiv. 93 The clouds..sailed sullenly from the west.
1898 H. Newbolt He fell among Thieves iv The ravine where the Yassîn river sullenly flows.
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