Thesaurus / saturnine

saturnine

How to use saturnine in a sentence

He was a slim saturnine-faced man with cigaret-ash stain on a coat lapel.

The dark, saturnine stranger had shrunk away into the background of his life, and no longer seemed of importance to him.

I saw him as he strode through the little village, looking neither to right nor left, saturnine of countenance.

And by the door stood Billy, watching them all like an evil spirit, with a leer of saturnine malice on his evil face.

The driver, a lean saturnine man who seemed to be forever chewing gum, began to prepare coffee.

SECURITYPOUL WILLIAM ANDERSON

One of Hollister's men was a lean, saturnine logger, past fifty, whose life had been spent in the woods of the Pacific Coast.

THE HIDDEN PLACESBERTRAND W. SINCLAIR

He was a tall, black-eyed man, with the dark, saturnine face of an Indian.

Of the influence formerly attributed to the planets, traces survive in such epithets as mercurial, jovial, saturnine.

This explanation that Diogo, with a saturnine air, gave to Malco, further increased his fury.

But he was unhappy, saturnine, and generally silent except when closeted with his ancient mentor.

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OCTOBER 26, 1985