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  • 1sullen — sullen, *glum, morose, surly, sulky, crabbed, saturnine, dour, gloomy can mean governed by or showing, especially in one s aspect, a forbidding or disagreeable mood or disposition. One is sullen who is, often by disposition, gloomy, silent, and… …

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  • 2look — I n. glance expression 1) to get, have, take a look 2) to dart, shoot; steal a look 3) to give smb. a look 4) a blank, distant, faraway, vacant look (she had a faraway look in her eyes) 5) an anxious, worried; baleful; close, hard; come hither,… …

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  • 3sullen — sul|len [ˈsʌlən] adj [Date: 1300 1400; Origin: Probably from an unrecorded Anglo French solein single, solitary, sullen , from Latin solus alone ] 1.) angry and silent, especially because you feel life has been unfair to you ▪ Bill sat in sullen… …

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  • 4sullen — sul|len [ sʌlən ] adjective 1. ) showing that you are in an unhappy mood, and do not want to talk a ) used about someone s expression or attitude: a sullen look 2. ) LITERARY if the sky or weather is sullen, it is dark and unpleasant ╾ sul|len|ly …

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  • 5sullen — adjective 1 silently showing anger or bad temper: a look of sullen resentment 2 literary sky or weather that is sullen is dark and unpleasant; gloomy (3) sullenly adverb sullenness noun (U) …

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  • 6sullen — UK [ˈsʌlən] / US adjective 1) a) showing that you are in an unhappy mood, and do not want to talk b) used about someone s expression or attitude a sullen look 2) literary if the sky or weather is sullen, it is dark and unpleasant Derived words:… …

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  • 7dirty look — /dɜti ˈlʊk/ (say dertee look) noun Colloquial an angry or sullen expression: she gave him a dirty look …

  • 8gloom — c.1300 as a verb, to look sullen or displeased, perhaps from Scandinavian (Cf. Norw. dialectal glome to stare somberly ). Not considered to be related to O.E. glom twilight, but perhaps to M.L.G. glum turbid, Du. gluren to leer. The noun is 1590s …

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  • 9frown — Synonyms and related words: angry look, ban, black look, blackball, categorically reject, color, deprecate, dirty look, disallow, disapprove, disapprove of, discommend, discountenance, disesteem, disfavor, dissent from, exclude, flush, frown at,… …

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  • 10glower — Synonyms and related words: angry look, bedroom eyes, color, come hither look, dirty look, evil eye, flush, frown, gape, gaze, glad eye, glare, gloom, glowering look, gnarl, goggle, grimace, growl, knit the brow, long face, look, look black, look …

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