| 单词 | sullen |
| 释义 | sul·len 1. a. < a sullen mood > < a sullen crowd > < the population sullen and impoverished — H.W.H.Knott > b. < began collecting the remaining things with sullen hands — Dorothy M. Richardson > < a sullen voluptuous mouth — Edmund Wilson > 2. < sullen oxen > 3. a. < a sullen sky > < a chain of sullen clouds — Ellen Glasgow > < the waves were sullen, heavier than usual — K.M.Dodson > b. < the sullen roar of a vast cataract — William Beckford > < the sullen bawling of steers — Green Peyton > < the sullen murmur of the bees — Oscar Wilde > 4. < rain fell with a sullen splash — Marcia Davenport > 5. < just a sullen line of men falling back — R.H.Newman > < sullen rivers > Synonyms: < her stolid exterior seemed to cloak a sullen resentment at the fact that she should be questioned at all — W.H.Wright > < sitting till three in the morning, staring at the dead fire in sullen apathy — G.D.Brown > < with sullen, defiant hatred still burning in their eyes — Robert Alden > glum indicates silent dismal dispiritedness < mutes at funerals could not look more glum than the domestics — W.M.Thackeray > < a glum guitarist who stared lifelessly into the innards of his guitar — Time > morose describes bitter, cynical, or misanthropic uncommunicative ill humor < she has tempted him to drink again because he is so morose when he is sober that she cannot endure living with him — G.B.Shaw > < in the keener moments of consciousness of his loneliness, she found him morose, until, unable to sing or laugh with the songs and laughter of that house, he came at times to believe he was morose himself — E.T.Thurston > surly applies to repelling churlish or rude sulkiness < the surly expression of an active boy detained within walls while other boys were shouting in the park — Gertrude Atherton > < the family pictures glared at the spectator in the eyes like some surly animal, that had lost its good humor when it outlived its playfulness — Nathaniel Hawthorne > sulky may suggest a childish display of displeasure or resentment marked by sullen peevishness < stared at the newcomer with a sulky scowl, as much as to say, Who the devil are you — W.M.Thackeray > < he was silent now, watching her with sulky, mistrustful eyes — Christine Weston > crabbed refers to accustomed, harsh, forbidding, morose crossness < an old crone who knew magic and could be asked for help, but who was apt to be crabbed and was best left alone — W.W.Howells > < crabbed theologians involved in tenuous subtleties and disputing endlessly — V.L.Parrington > saturnine describes heavy forbidding taciturn gloom < the severe, skeptical eyes, the querulous eyebrows, the thin peevish lips, the big pedantic nose … display a saturnine master bore — D.B.W.Lewis > dour may describe uncommunicative grim obstinacy < drank in silence; when deep in his cups he became more and more dour and taciturn — C.B.Nordhoff & J.N.Hall > < the pleasure-loving Cavaliers were not sympathetic with the dour denials of enjoyment that prevailed in some of the other colonies — American Guide Series: Virginia > gloomy describes a cheerless, sullen, or melancholy depression of spirits < constitutionally gloomy, a congenital pessimist who always saw the doleful side of any situation — W.A.White > < a heart full of gloomy forebodings, and a brain whirling with wild fancies — Charles Kingsley > |
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