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glumly

[ US /ˈɡɫəmɫi/ ]
[ UK /ɡlˈʌmli/ ]
ADVERB
  1. in a sullen manner
    he sat in his chair dourly

How To Use glumly In A Sentence

  • ‘Now all we have to do is find out way back out to the motorway again,’ Graham said, just a little glumly.
  • Danny is pushing his food around the plate with his cutlery glumly.
  • So the youngest member glumly goes off alone to play a videogame. In Scary Darkness, Seeing the Light
  • Nevertheless, I find myself at this weird juncture, a cultural snag wrapped in a conundrum shaped like a question mark dressed in scratchy raw Japanese selvedge and smoking American Spirits, glumly, in a grungy hoody, outside the bike shop, twitching just a little. Mark Morford: Forgive Me, I Do Not Like The Arcade Fire
  • The others murmur what could be approval or embarrassment, nurse their bourbons, and glumly fall back into silence.
  • Two hours later Shelley glumly rescued her over-baked potato from the oven, grated some Red Leicester over it and ate at the kitchen table.
  • Becky, the eldest, was staring glumly at her latest present.
  • Eventually, Davey Johnson, the Mets manager, stopped pitching Sisk at Shea, an embarrassing decision that the ballplayer glumly accepted. The One Met Their Fans Most Loved to Hate
  • I glumly consign a notebook packed full of rib-ticklers about bratwurst and square-headed men with no sense of humour to the bin.
  • In early 2005, when a group of former aides asked if there was anything he was unhappy about, Yeltsin replied glumly: “Yes, the state of the country.” The Return
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