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Cloudiness or heaviness of mind; melancholy; aspect of sorrow; low spirits; dullness. A sullen gloom and furious disorder prevailed by fits. Burke.

To pout; to look sullen. [Obs.] Garth.

Sullenness. [Obs.] Skelton.

In a glum manner; sullenly; moodily.

Moodiness; sullenness.

To manifest sullenness; to sulk. [Colloq.]

Glum; sullen; sulky. [Colloq.] "He was glumpy enough." T. Hook.

Frowning; sulky; sullen. Sir W. Scott. -- n.

Not blemished or impeached; fair; honorable; unsullied; as in the phrases a good name, a good report, good repute, etc. A good name is better than precious ointment. Eccl. vii. 1. As good as. See under As. -- For good, or For good and all, completely and finally; fully; truly. The good woman never died after this, til…

Foul matter; dirt, rubbed in; sullying blackness, deeply ingrained.

Cross; sulky; sullen. [Colloq.]

Sullen malice or malevolence; cherished malice, enmity, or dislike; ill will; an old cause of hatred or quarrel. Esau had conceived a mortal grudge and eumity against hie brother Jacob. South. The feeling may not be envy; it may not be imbittered by a grudge. I. Taylor.

In a surly manner; sullenly. [Colloq.]

rsable; companionable. [R.] His virtues active, chiefly, and homiletical, not those lazy, sullen ones of the cloister. Atterbury.

l humor, a disagreeable mood; bad temper. -- Ill nature, bad disposition or temperament; sullenness; esp., a disposition to cause unhappiness to others. -- Ill temper, anger; moroseness; crossness. -- Ill turn. (a) An unkind act. (b) A slight attack of illness. [Colloq. U.S.] -- Ill will, unkindness; enmity; malevol…

(a) Talk. (b) Kissing. [Humorous] B. Jonson. -- Lip make a lip, to drop the under lip in sullenness or contempt. Shak. -- To shoot out the lip (Script.), to show contempt by protruding the lip.

To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.

Dark and threatening; gloomy; sullen; as, lowering clouds or sky.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. J. Sully.

Guilty of ill behavior; illbred; rude. "A misbehaved and sullen wench." Shak.