Thesaurus / saturnine
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He was a slim saturnine-faced man with cigaret-ash stain on a coat lapel.
HOODED DETECTIVE, VOLUME III NO. 2, JANUARY, 1942VARIOUSThe dark, saturnine stranger had shrunk away into the background of his life, and no longer seemed of importance to him.
THE EVERLASTING ARMSJOSEPH HOCKINGI saw him as he strode through the little village, looking neither to right nor left, saturnine of countenance.
A VIRGINIA SCOUTHUGH PENDEXTERAnd by the door stood Billy, watching them all like an evil spirit, with a leer of saturnine malice on his evil face.
ERIC, OR LITTLE BY LITTLEFREDERIC W. FARRARThe driver, a lean saturnine man who seemed to be forever chewing gum, began to prepare coffee.
SECURITYPOUL WILLIAM ANDERSONOne 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. SINCLAIRHe was a tall, black-eyed man, with the dark, saturnine face of an Indian.
--AND DEVIOUS THE LINE OF DUTYTOM GODWINOf the influence formerly attributed to the planets, traces survive in such epithets as mercurial, jovial, saturnine.
THE AGE OF ERASMUSP. S. ALLENThis explanation that Diogo, with a saturnine air, gave to Malco, further increased his fury.
THE GUIDE OF THE DESERTGUSTAVE AIMARDBut he was unhappy, saturnine, and generally silent except when closeted with his ancient mentor.
THE PRIME MINISTERANTHONY TROLLOPEWORDS RELATED TO SATURNINE
- bad-tempered
- cheerless
- churlish
- crabbed
- crabby
- cross
- cynical
- dismal
- dour
- dull
- fretful
- frowning
- gloomy
- glowering
- glum
- gruff
- grumpy
- heavy
- hostile
- ill-humored
- inert
- irritable
- malevolent
- malicious
- malign
- mean
- moody
- morose
- obstinate
- ornery
- out of sorts
- peevish
- perverse
- pessimistic
- petulant
- pouting
- pouty
- querulous
- saturnine
- silent
- somber
- sour
- sourpussed
- stubborn
- sulking
- sulky
- surly
- tenebrific
- tenebrous
- ugly
- unsociable
- uptight
- black
- bleak
- blue
- blue funk
- broody
- chapfallen
- cheerless
- crabbed
- crestfallen
- dark
- dejected
- depressed
- desolate
- despondent
- disconsolate
- dismal
- dispirited
- dour
- down in the dumps
- down in the mouth
- downcast
- downhearted
- dragged
- dreary
- forlorn
- glum
- in low spirits
- in the dumps
- joyless
- low
- melancholy
- mirthless
- miserable
- moody
- moping
- mopish
- morose
- mournful
- oppressed
- pessimistic
- sad
- saturnine
- solemn
- somber
- sulky
- sullen
- surly
- ugly
- unhappy
- weary
- woebegone
- woeful
- angry
- bellicose
- black
- cantankerous
- crabbed
- crabby
- dark
- disagreeable
- dour
- evil
- fell
- forbidding
- formidable
- gloomy
- glum
- grave
- grievous
- major
- malevolent
- menacing
- morose
- nasty
- obnoxious
- ominous
- pugnacious
- quarrelsome
- rough
- saturnine
- scowling
- serious
- sinister
- spiteful
- sullen
- surly
- treacherous
- truculent
- vicious
- violent
- wicked
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