sullenness
Example Sentences
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Sullenness arises from capricious displeasure not founded in reason.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
Sullenness and anger fell from him like a cloth.
From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil
We followed the Sound till we came to a close Thicket, on the other side of which we saw a young Woman sitting as it were in a personated Sullenness just over a transparent Fountain.
From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph
Sullenness was unknown to the gay Charley and he was not a whit less optimistic because of his set-backs.
From The Deaves Affair by Footner, Hulbert
Sullenness, if you be not too blind to perceive it, is a temper to be avoided by all means.
From The Young Man's Guide by Alcott, William A. (William Andrus)
