All 15 Uses
sullen
in
A Feast For Crows
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- Another poked at a sullen fire that was giving off more smoke than heat.
p. 30.8sullen = unpleasant; or slow-burning
- "No," the king muttered sullenly.
p. 490.9 *sullenly = in an unhappy manner
- Ahead loomed the Great Sept of Baelor, with its magnificent dome and seven shining towers, but between her and the marble steps lay a sullen sea of humanity, brown and ragged and unwashed.
p. 591.3 *sullen = unpleasant
- The looks the sparrows gave her were dull, sullen, hostile.
p. 593.1sullen = unpleasant or gloomy
- All it did was make him sullen with her.
p. 605.9sullen = unhappy
- A gang of sullen survivors moved amongst them, chasing off the black birds and tossing the dead into the back of a wagon for burial.†
p. 620.1
- As Jaime trotted across the yard, chickens ran out from under Honor's hooves, sheep bleated, and peasants stared at him with sullen eyes.†
p. 636.8
- "It was not me, my lady," he said in a sulky sullen tone, like a child caught stealing apple cakes from the kitchen.†
p. 686.4
- A sullen lot, I don't mind saying.†
p. 700.2
- Jaime touched it and watched the gold glimmer in the sullen light of the braziers.†
p. 701.8
- Jaime remembered many a feast where Emmon sat poking at his food sullenly whilst his wife made ribald jests with whatever household knight had been seated to her left, their conversations punctuated by loud bursts of laughter.†
p. 711.4
- They stood about in small clumps, gazing sullenly at the doors of the Great Sept, where a line of novice septons had been drawn up with quarterstaffs in their hands.†
p. 926.4
- "He did swim," said Edmure, sullenly.†
p. 941.9
- From time to time he waved his parchment, as stableboys and serving girls and smiths listened in a sullen silence and a light rain fell down upon them all.†
p. 955.1
Uses with a meaning too rare to warrant foucs:
- He remembered the sullen orange glow of the coals in the iron dragon's mouth.
p. 167.7 *sullen = slow-burning
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(sullen as in: a sullen mood) being unhappy (and often withdrawn)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.