All 13 Uses of
sullen
in
Cry, the Beloved Country
- Gertrude stood sullenly.
Chpt 2.27 *sullenly = showing a gloomy or bad mood
- She looks at him sullenly, like an animal that is tormented.†
Chpt 1.6
- She looked at them sullenly, watchfully.†
Chpt 1.8
- She opened again to him, as sullen as before; now that she had recovered, there was more sullenness than fear.†
Chpt 1.8
- She opened again to him, as sullen as before; now that she had recovered, there was more sullenness than fear.†
Chpt 1.8
- She looks at him sullenly.†
Chpt 1.12
- He looks at you sullenly, soon he will not answer at all.†
Chpt 1.17
- They will stand idle and sullen about the streets, in every city and town and village, on every road and every farm, eight millions of them.†
Chpt 2.26
- He left her and went to a window in the great grim wall, and she stood sullenly silent, but he knew she would not do what it was in her mind to have done.†
Chpt 2.29
- There have been meetings, and much silence, and much sullenness.†
Chpt 3.35
- And even Kuluse's brother, watching it sullenly, breaks out into unwilling laughter, but remembers again and is sullen.†
Chpt 3.35
- And even Kuluse's brother, watching it sullenly, breaks out into unwilling laughter, but remembers again and is sullen.†
Chpt 3.35
- And both Zuma and his brother laughed at him, because he was sullen about the dam; so in some measure he is satisfied.†
Chpt 3.35
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)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.