All 19 Uses
sullen
in
A Dance With Dragons
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- The sullen wet heat of Volantis sapped his strength and left him feeling dirty.
p. 97.5 *sullen = unpleasant
- The princeling was in a sullen mood, angry that he had been forced to remain on the Shy Maid instead of going ashore with Yandry and Ysilla.
p. 304.4 *sullen = unhappy
- It was better than her usual sullen silence.
p. 947.1sullen = unhappy and withdrawn
- The pronouncement was received in sullen silence.†
p. 50.1
- The last few trips had seen some ugliness at Mole's Town, a little pushing and shoving, some muttered curses, a lot of sullen looks.†
p. 294.4
- Half a dozen Thenns in bronze scale armor stood clustered round one cellar stair, watching sullenly and making no attempt to join the others.†
p. 297.1
- Some were shy and some were bold, some sweet and some sullen, but all were innocent.†
p. 322.7
- The man is cold, brooding, sullen, deaf to humor.†
p. 480.8
- Food and fire and rest had helped restore him after the ordeals of their journey, but he seemed sadder now, sullen, with a weary, haunted look about the eyes.†
p. 492.6
- Under the hill, Jojen Reed grew ever more sullen and solitary, to his sister's distress.†
p. 499.8
- She slipped back into her place without a word, and sat there sullen and scowling, neither smiling nor speaking.†
p. 555.6
- You were sullen.†
p. 647.2
- "You're still a little sullen," the girl said, "but I will forgive you that if you will save me from my uncle."†
p. 647.3
- Jorah Mormont accepted his collar in a sullen silence, but Penny began to cry as the armorer was fastening her own into place.†
p. 686.5
- Rowan and her scheming sisters did not want to attract notice, but their sullen silence soon had the guards giving them queer looks.†
p. 744.7
- Pale Qartheen, black Summer Islanders, copper-skinned Dothraki, Tyroshi with blue beards, Lamb Men, Jogos Nhai, sullen Braavosi, brindle-skinned half-men from the jungles of Sothoros—from the ends of the world they came to die in Daznak's Pit.†
p. 758.8
- When called upon to play the bear and carry off the maiden fair, he had been sullen and uncooperative, shuffling lifelessly through his paces when he deigned to take part in their mummery at all.†
p. 829.7
- Ser Jorah's only reply was a sullen stare.†
p. 830.2
- It was black beyond the doors, a sullen stygian darkness that seemed alive and threatening, hungry.†
p. 980.5
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.