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sullen

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sul·len /ˈsʌlən/ adjectiveadj  
1  BAD-TEMPEREDangry and silent, especially because you feel life has been unfair to you 闷闷不乐的，怒的 → morose
 Bill sat in sullen silence and refused to eat his lunch.
比尔一声不响，闷闷不乐地坐着，不肯吃午饭。
 a look of sullen resentment
愤懑的眼神
2. literaryDNDARK a sullen sky or sea is dark and looks as if bad weather is coming 〔天空或大海〕灰蒙蒙的，阴沉的 SYN overcast
—sullenly adverbadv
—sullenness noun [uncountableU]
Examples from the Corpus
sullen• The girl was sullen and uncooperative.• The little children were crying constantly, and the older ones were sullen and withdrawn.• Starvation gave a gaunt menace to their sullen anger - and they were angry, he could not doubt it.• They were tolerating that redhead well enough in spite of his sullen bad manners.• Dick just sat there with a sullen expression on his face, refusing to speak.• The three boys should have been at school with their ragged clothes, crew cuts and sullen eyes.• a sullen gray sky• A sullen grey July gave way to sultry August.• It makes you think about those sullen high schoolers in a different light, see their lives along a time line.
Origin sullen
(1300-1400) Probably from an unrecorded Anglo-French solein “single, solitary, sullen”, from Latin solus “alone”
sul·len adjectiveadj
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