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Definition of sullen in English: sullenadjective ˈsʌlənˈsələn 1Bad-tempered and sulky. Example sentencesExamples - Boscaini manages to say this entirely convincingly under a sullen, grey sky in Dublin.
- Anthony Hopkins goes from sullen silence to wordy sermonising as an unhinged anthropologist in this heavy-handed drama.
- She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter.
- Or do you picture them caked in mud, bodies swarming with lice, marching in sullen silence?
- A couple of tourists are sitting in a brasserie on the Boulevard-St-Germain and their waiter is sullen, slow and brings the wrong order.
- At best you will achieve a sullen and resentful compliance.
- The Dutch of the 19th century were portrayed as gloomy and sullen preachers and educators.
- It squats at the bottom of the pail like a sullen garden toad, refusing to budge.
- He leans back and crosses his hands over his chest, a sullen expression on his lean, sculpted face.
- But prepare for the inevitable crash of emotions as the money is spent and the glow fades and you end up gloomy and sullen.
- Those who should ask questions either do not bother to show up, knowing they will not be called, or sit in sullen silence.
- Mounting the pulpit they appealed for calm and secured a sullen silence.
- This hope was dashed when she walked into the dining room to find him still sullen and sulky.
- I shrink into myself and become sullen and uncommunicative.
- Outside the fine rain had abated, leaving it its wake a sullen spring sky of pencil grey.
- If I do that, it will make him sullen and resentful and unmotivated to control his desire to hit when he is angry.
- There's a sullen, and increasingly angry mood on the issue.
- Soon enough, though, I'd had enough of walking, the sky grew more and more sullen, and the temperature dropped.
- Bolton itself also belied any clichéd image of drab northern towns under sullen skies.
- After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
Synonyms surly, sulky, pouting, sour, morose, resentful, glum, moody, gloomy, joyless, frowning, glowering, grumpy, touchy, peevish, indignant, embittered bad-tempered, ill-tempered, cross, angry, testy unresponsive, uncommunicative, unsociable, uncivil, unmannerly, unfriendly informal stroppy - 1.1 (of the sky) full of dark clouds.
noun ˈsʌlənˈsələn the sullensarchaic A sulky or depressed mood. Example sentencesExamples - He led her into a respectable inn and ordered a dinner to charm her out of the sullens.
- When I mentioned this, he lapsed back into the sullens.
Derivatives adverb ˈsʌlənliˈsələnli The locals lined the roads and looked sullenly at their liberators. Example sentencesExamples - ‘Not an astronaut's usual escape route,’ he observed sullenly from the rear of our Chrysler Neon.
- About 3am on Monday morning the storm seemed to have reached its worst and from that hour the wind gradually but sullenly declined.
- She sullenly plops herself in a chair out in the hallway, pouting and petulant and waiting for the people strolling in to recognize her.
- Audience members will either guffaw heartily, or brood sullenly.
noun ˈsʌlənnəsˈsələnnəs She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray. Example sentencesExamples - It is the same with his cynical suspiciousness and resentful sullenness.
- The symptoms of sullenness, withdrawal and irritability are hard for others to ignore.
- I tell the girl serving my story, hoping to break the sullenness of a graduate with the worst job in the world.
- Anger or sullenness are certainly well-used tools in my emotional repertoire, but their employ doesn't usually lead to a happy ending for anyone in the household.
Origin Middle English (in the senses 'solitary, averse to company', and 'unusual'): from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol 'sole'. To be sullen originally related to the idea of being on your own. The source is Old French sulein, from sol ‘sole, alone’, which came ultimately from Latin solus ‘alone’. Early meanings were ‘single’, ‘solitary’, and ‘unusual’. There is obviously a link between being solitary and being averse to company or unsociable, and such associations led in the late 14th century to a shift in sense as the word came to describe someone who is silently gloomy, resentful, and moody.
Definition of sullen in US English: sullenadjectiveˈsələnˈsələn 1Bad-tempered and sulky; gloomy. Example sentencesExamples - But prepare for the inevitable crash of emotions as the money is spent and the glow fades and you end up gloomy and sullen.
- At best you will achieve a sullen and resentful compliance.
- Mounting the pulpit they appealed for calm and secured a sullen silence.
- The Dutch of the 19th century were portrayed as gloomy and sullen preachers and educators.
- There's a sullen, and increasingly angry mood on the issue.
- Bolton itself also belied any clichéd image of drab northern towns under sullen skies.
- Boscaini manages to say this entirely convincingly under a sullen, grey sky in Dublin.
- Or do you picture them caked in mud, bodies swarming with lice, marching in sullen silence?
- Those who should ask questions either do not bother to show up, knowing they will not be called, or sit in sullen silence.
- Soon enough, though, I'd had enough of walking, the sky grew more and more sullen, and the temperature dropped.
- It squats at the bottom of the pail like a sullen garden toad, refusing to budge.
- This hope was dashed when she walked into the dining room to find him still sullen and sulky.
- Anthony Hopkins goes from sullen silence to wordy sermonising as an unhinged anthropologist in this heavy-handed drama.
- Outside the fine rain had abated, leaving it its wake a sullen spring sky of pencil grey.
- I shrink into myself and become sullen and uncommunicative.
- If I do that, it will make him sullen and resentful and unmotivated to control his desire to hit when he is angry.
- He leans back and crosses his hands over his chest, a sullen expression on his lean, sculpted face.
- A couple of tourists are sitting in a brasserie on the Boulevard-St-Germain and their waiter is sullen, slow and brings the wrong order.
- After she declined a proposal to have dinner with him he returned to his more sullen and sulky ways.
- She's childish, sullen, moody and volatile, prone to outbursts of jealousy, weeping, rage and laughter.
Synonyms surly, sulky, pouting, sour, morose, resentful, glum, moody, gloomy, joyless, frowning, glowering, grumpy, touchy, peevish, indignant, embittered - 1.1 (of the sky) full of dark clouds.
nounˈsələnˈsələn the sullensarchaic A sulky or depressed mood. Example sentencesExamples - When I mentioned this, he lapsed back into the sullens.
- He led her into a respectable inn and ordered a dinner to charm her out of the sullens.
Origin Middle English (in the senses ‘solitary, averse to company’, and ‘unusual’): from Anglo-Norman French sulein, from sol ‘sole’. |