How To Use Sullenness In A Sentence
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She waited to tell him of her decision until the main doors of the school opened, as if to greet them, and the girls streamed through in varying degrees of sullenness and exultation and prettiness and slouching disarray.
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The animal had the character of being, contrary to what his species usually are, exceedingly savage; and he suffered himself to be taken up by me and carried from his foes with a kind of sullenness; but when, being out of the reach of danger, he was put down, he gazed on his deliverer, and then crouched at his feet.
The Dog
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By contrast, the ranks of subjects whom Andy represented, like himself, occluded and determinedly not smiling, is equally revealing, as if to conjure not so much by passive aggression as by vaguely sexualized sullenness, even vacancy, the dominant mood of international fame in the 1970s and early to mid-1980s.
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The whole equipment was that of a rude warrior, negligent of his exterior even to misanthropical sullenness; and the short, harsh, haughty tone, which he used towards his attendants, belonged to the same unpolished character.
The Abbot
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Besides, captiousness, sullenness, and pouting are most exceedingly illiberal and vulgar.
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
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It consisted chiefly of a dialogue between the two lovers; and the boy, with a wonderful ease and grace and skill, mimicked the shy coquetries of the girl, her fits of petulance and dictation, and the pathetic remonstrances of her companion, his humble entreaties and his final sullenness, which is only conquered by her sudden and ample consent.
Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 31, October, 1873
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Marie, as we have seen, was only seventeen, unformed and wild, full of youthful passion and social despair, on the verge of what we call prostitution; reckless, hopeless, with a deep touch of sullenness and hatred.
An Anarchist Woman
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But the sullenness, withdrawal and irritability are hard on those around them.
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He thought that some of them resented his sullenness, his silence.
The Empty Family
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I tell the girl serving my story, hoping to break the sullenness of a graduate with the worst job in the world.
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It is the same with his cynical suspiciousness and resentful sullenness.
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They do not in sullenness deny him an answer, nor stand mute; but they tell him that they are in no care about it.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
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Such is the sullenness towards him in some constituencies of opinion that they don't want to hear him when he wants to reach out to them.
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The residence of a smith was his first object of inquiry, in which he received little satisfaction from the dullness or sullenness of one or two peasants, early bound for their labour, who gave brief and indifferent answers to his questions on the subject.
Kenilworth
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She was frightened and ashamed, and the sullenness which is the refuge of most young people descended upon her like a darkness.
Mary, Mary
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ill-will" he describes as "an anger that endures and grows old," and this the Philosopher ascribes to "sullenness"; while he describes
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province
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Now began the native spleen of Oceana to be much purged, and men not to affect sullenness and pedantism.
The Commonwealth of Oceana
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He spent the whole day in a queer mood, cherishing a kind of sullenness against himself.
Five Tales
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The symptoms of sullenness, withdrawal and irritability are hard for others to ignore.
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What was then called sullenness now took the name of resignation, and stupidity was quiet contempt.
The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52
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The other two, maintaining their usual expression of phlegmatic and stubborn sullenness, left the delivery of their message to him, the glibbest talker.
The Return of Blue Pete
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Anger or sullenness are certainly well-used tools in my emotional repertoire, but their employ doesn't usually lead to a happy ending for anyone in the household.
