Sullens

Word SULLENS
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Definitions and meanings of "Sullens"

What do we mean by sullens?

One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.

(chiefly in plural) Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

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The word "sullens" in example sentences

How, for instance, he chanced upon Aristarchus wearing the look of one who suffered from a fit of the "sullens," and thus accosted him. ❋ 431 BC-350? BC Xenophon (1874)

Only he and she were left below, which, as he had determined the order of ascent, was how he had intended it, given that it was difficult to coax her out of the sullens with six pairs of nosy ears listening to every word he said to her and every snippy reply she made to him in turn. ❋ KAREN ROBARDS (2010)

How, for instance, he chanced upon Aristarchus wearing the look of one who suffered from a fit of the “sullens,” and thus accosted him. ❋ Unknown (2007)

I begged my maid to be excused attending; but on the repeated command, went down with as much cheerfulness as I could assume; and had a new fault to clear myself of: for my brother, so pregnant a thing is determined ill-will, by intimations equally rude and intelligible, charged my desire of being excused coming down, to sullens, because a certain person had been spoken against, upon whom, as he supposed, my fancy ran. ❋ Unknown (2006)

No sullens, my Mamma: no perverseness: but, worse than either: this is direct disobedience! — ❋ Unknown (2006)

And, indeed, so sturdy was she in her will, that I was afraid it would end in a fit of sickness, as too often it did in fits of sullens. ❋ Unknown (2006)

What can one oppose but sullens, when it would be unpardonable so much as to think of lifting up a finger? ❋ Unknown (2006)

And must it not make her the more strenuous to support her own opinion, when she sees the first fruits of this tenaciousness on your side is to be gloriously in the sullens, as you call it, and in a disobedient opposition? ❋ Unknown (2006)

A wall of mute resistance; an entrenchment of sulks and sullens. ❋ Unknown (2004)

When I think I have at last driven him to the sullens, he turns on me with jokes for retaliation: but you know him and all his iniquities, and ❋ Unknown (2003)

As the date of their departure back to Hogwarts drew nearer, he became more and more prone to what Mrs Weasley called 'fits of the sullens', in which he would become taciturn and grumpy, often withdrawing to Buckbeak's room for hours at a time. ❋ Rowling, J. K. (2003)

I know not how I may again adventure an Epistle to the reader, so are these times, or readers in these times, most part sicke of the sullens, and peevish in their sicknes, and conceited in their peevishnes. ❋ Arthur Acheson (1897)

Annot Lyle could always charm Allan out of the sullens, and who knows whether matrimony might not make him more a man of this world? '' ❋ Unknown (1871)

Mrs. Pagnell had been quietly chewing her cud of the sullens, as was the way with her after a snub. ❋ George Meredith (1868)

When I think I have at last driven him to the sullens, he turns on me with jokes for retaliation: but you know him and all his iniquities, and I am but an elderly simpleton to make him the subject of this epistle. ❋ Charlotte Bront�� (1835)

After a few days spent in upbraidings, lady Jacintha, finding her husband of a temper on which neither tears, rage, nor sullens, had the least effect, began to consider that it would be to her interest to put on an appearance of affability and reconciliation; she wished to spend the winter in London, and was willing to humble herself a little to gain her point: but ❋ Unknown (1821)

I now sported the sullens in dignified retirement -- but it would not do: murder will out, and so will manuscripts. ❋ Samuel James Arnold (1813)

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