All 9 Uses

sullen
in
The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene by Greene
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The heavy brown eyes stared sullenly back at him.
Chpt 1.4 *

sullenly = in a gloomy manner; or showing a bad mood
He stared sullenly back at her.†
Chpt 1.4
Perhaps he remembered that occasion in his boyhood when he acted Nero before the good old bishop, but this time he insisted on taking the comic part of a Roman fishmonger...' 'I don't believe a word of it,' the boy said, with sullen fury, 'not a word of it.'†
Chpt 1.4
They filed sullenly up and he questioned them, 'What's your name?†
Chpt 2.1
He struck a match and held the flame against its side — it struck up suddenly with its back hooves and he dropped the match; then it was still again, with drooping sullen head and great antediluvian haunches.†
Chpt 2.1
He was stirred by a sort of sullen anger — this one should not withdraw.†
Chpt 2.4
The priest mounted, but before they had time to move a voice made the priest turn — the same sullen whine he had heard so often.†
Chpt 3.3
As the liquid touched his tongue he remembered his child, coming in out of the glare: the sullen unhappy knowledgeable face.†
Chpt 3.4
'You really must try to think of thirgs,' she said weakly and sullenly, 'there's no one else,' and they both sat silent at a phrase they should have avoided.†
Chpt 4

Definitions:

(1) (sullen as in: a sullen mood)
being unhappy (and often withdrawn)
(2) (sullen as in: a sullen sky)
darkened by clouds; or the color of a gloomy sky
(3) (sullen as in: sullen heat)
unpleasant
(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.