All 9 Uses of
sullen
in
Catch-22
- When night fell, they congregated in the darkness with flashlights, continuing their macabre vigil at the bomb line in brooding entreaty as though hoping to move the ribbon up by the collective weight of their sullen prayers.†
Chpt 12
- 'It's not my business to save lives,' Doc Daneeka retorted sullenly.†
Chpt 17
- Her mouth was sullen and sad, her lined lips compressed.†
Chpt 18
- At unguarded moments his hard and sullen face slipped into a somber, preoccupied look of defeat and frustration.†
Chpt 21
- But Aarfy was no help to Nately now as the girl Nately had fallen so deeply in love with began swearing at him sullenly with rising, menacing resentment.†
Chpt 23
- 'You don't know how to delegate responsibility,' Corporal Whitcomb informed him sullenly.†
Chpt 25
- 'I don't know anything about writing,' Colonel Scheisskopf retorted sullenly.†
Chpt 29
- No one in the sullen, cowering crowd seemed to care enough about the stunned and beaten boy to interfere.†
Chpt 39
- Colonel Cathcart grimaced sullenly.†
Chpt 40 *
Definition:
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)