All 22 Uses of
sullen
in
The Grapes of Wrath
- And the mouths panting, the eyes sullen, disliking sun and wind and earth, resenting food and weariness, hating time that rarely makes them beautiful and always makes them old.†
Chpt 15
- The woman will sniff as though she smelled rotting meat and they will go out again and tell forever afterward that the people in the West are sullen.†
Chpt 15
- And he looked sullenly down at the potato salad he was mixing.†
Chpt 15
- His heavy, pouting underlip hung out sullenly.†
Chpt 16
- "I work for the boss," he said sullenly.†
Chpt 16
- The proprietor, a sullen lanky man, sat in a chair on the porch.†
Chpt 16
- The ragged man shut his mouth and looked sullenly at the porch boards.†
Chpt 16
- And the eyes looked away, leaving Al sullen and shaken.†
Chpt 18
- The men squatted on their hams, sharp-faced men, lean from hunger and hard from resisting it, sullen eyes and hard jaws.†
Chpt 19
- Connie's eyes were sullen.
Chpt 20 *sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
- Rose of Sharon said sullenly, "Said it would a been a good thing if he stayed home an' studied up tractors.†
Chpt 20
- The watchman looked sullen.†
Chpt 22
- Rose of Sharon said sullenly, "I don' feel good.†
Chpt 22
- Huston put a flashlight beam in each sullen face.†
Chpt 24
- Al came slowly out of his sullenness.†
Chpt 26
- " Tom's eyes drooped sullenly.†
Chpt 26
- " "I ain't had no milk," Rose of Sharon said sullenly.†
Chpt 26
- If they were shot at, they did not run, but splashed sullenly away; and if they were hit, they sank tiredly in the mud.†
Chpt 29
- Ruthie and Winfield tried to play for a while, and then they too relapsed into sullen inactivity, and the rain drummed down on the roof.†
Chpt 30
- He went on shoveling the mud sullenly.†
Chpt 30
- Uncle John said sullenly, "Why do I got to do it?†
Chpt 30
- Ma watched him sullenly while he chopped out part of the inner wall of the car, built a fire, and scooped water into a pan.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)