Synonym: dismal, gloomy, glum, moody, morose, sulky. Antonym: amiable. Similar words: sully, bullet, challenged, lens, sulky, blend, result, length. Meaning: ['sʌlən] adj. 1. showing a brooding ill humor 2. darkened by clouds.
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31. The little children were crying constantly, and the older ones were sullen and withdrawn.
32. Mostly culls, at the sullen, anxious, over-priced yard sales we seem always to be planning but rarely holding.
33. Joseph arrived in sullen mood, having learnt that soldiers were marching through the Wallowa among his women and children.
34. But while the upper edges of the thickening cloud were bright as polished brass, underneath they were a sullen purple.
35. The pigeons, puffed, sullen, full of oats and spring thoughts, kept their distance.
36. It makes you think about those sullen high schoolers in a different light, see their lives along a time line.
37. If Anna wanted to be sullen, Liz decided she was best ignored.
38. Great granite fortresses sprang up in the misty vales and from them Dragon Princes rode the thermals over sullen volcanoes.
39. Three lone boys finally started up his walk in a sullen clump, and the rest followed in a bigger clump.
40. When Corbett replied that Sir James's hospitality was equal to his manners, the knight lapsed into a sullen silence.
41. I was prevented by his permanently sullen air and his rodent-like face with its black fringe of hair reaching to the eyes.
42. There were two servants still: the woman he had glimpsed, and a steward more frail and more sullen.
43. The jam around Samuel's mouth was like a big cheery grin, but his eyes remained sullen.
44. By that time I was chilled to the bone, exhausted from the relentless battering of the traffic, sullen and depressed.
45. To wait in heavy harness On fluttered folk and wild Your new-caught, sullen peoples(Sentencedict.com), Half devil and half child.
46. They roll apart and she looks at him with sullen exhaustion, her head still pumping in and out.
47. Starvation gave a gaunt menace to their sullen anger - and they were angry, he could not doubt it.
48. Although sullen opposition and private anger still shadows the Communist Party, no disturbances were reported during yesterday's events.
49. They were tolerating that redhead well enough in spite of his sullen bad manners.
50. The King came in, sullen and withdrawn, but his mood changed rapidly.
51. It's a striking contrast to see the sullen faces in our streets.
52. Sullen girls walked barefoot from the public spigot with water buckets balanced on their heads.
53. By day he was a sullen apprentice at a local print shop.
54. A Tory campaign machine on full throttle generally encountered sour looks and sullen stares.
55. Shorn of Oliver's physical charisma and reserves of sullen, glowing mystery(sentencedict.com), Branagh tries to compensate with a pugnacious modernism.
56. Talk shows hosts hate to feature writers, with few exceptions, since writers are often inarticulate, sullen and unkempt.
57. And with my eyes closed, I felt low sullen waters wash about a dead tree on a midnight pond.
58. But for the most part Monet kept her usual sullen silence.
59. Rachaela walked along the path, in among the pine trees with the sullen roar of the sea to her right.
60. Both Ari and Nathan looked sullen and had clearly joined ranks over something.
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