sullenness

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Sullenness, or obstinacy, is perhaps a worse fault of temper than either of the former, and, if indulged, may end in the most fatal extremes of stubborn melancholy, malice, and revenge.

From Letters on the Improvement of the Mind, Addressed to a Lady by Chapone, Hester

Sullenness must be left to weary itself out.’

From Hopes and Fears or, scenes from the life of a spinster by Yonge, Charlotte Mary

Babylons Mortal Foe; he who so long With haughty Sullenness, and scornful Lowr, Had loath’d false Gods, and Arbitrary pow’r.

From Anti-Achitophel (1682) Three Verse Replies to Absalom and Achitophel by John Dryden by Jones, Harold Whitmore

Sullenness and anger fell from him like a cloth.

From The Dragon Painter by Fenollosa, Mary McNeil

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