All 7 Uses
sullen
in
Maggie: A Girl of the Streets
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- Pete came along slowly, with a sullen dropping of the under lip.
Chpt 11 *sullen = showing a gloomy or bad mood
- Up the avenue there plodded slowly a man with sullen eyes.†
Chpt 1
- As the sullen-eyed man, followed by the blood-covered boy, drew near, the little girl burst into reproachful cries.†
Chpt 2
- Momentarily, Jimmie was sullen with thoughts of a hopeless altitude where grew fruit.†
Chpt 4
- The displaced lids and open doors showed heaps of sullen grey ashes.†
Chpt 6
- "Come, come, now," said the waiter, with the sullen air of a man who is forced into giving advice.†
Chpt 18
- The man swore sullenly.†
Chpt 19
Definitions:
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(1)
(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)
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(2)
(sullen as in: a sullen sky) darkened by clouds; or the color of a gloomy sky
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(3)
(sullen as in: sullen heat) unpleasant
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(4)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) Sullen can also be used figuratively. For example, "A sullen economic landscape" is one that does not look hopeful.