sullenadjective
uk/ˈsʌl.ən/us/ˈsʌl.ən/angry and unwilling to smile or be pleasant to people:
His daughters stared back at him with an expression of sullen resentment.
literary She looked up at the sullen (= dark and unpleasant) sky and shuddered.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not being friendly
- (at) daggers drawn idiom
- abrasive
- aloof
- antisocial
- asocial
- austere
- estrange
- estranged
- forbidding
- frostily
- give sb the time of day idiom
- hostile
- mixer
- saturnine
- sour
- unwelcoming
- wintry
- with friends like you, who needs enemies? idiom
- withdraw
- withdrawal
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sullenly
adverb uk/ˈsʌl.ən.li/us/ˈsʌl.ən.li/
She turned her back to him and stared sullenly out of the window.
sullenness
noun [ U ] uk/ˈsʌl.ən.nəs/us/ˈsʌl.ən.nəs/