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sullen

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Adjective

  1. Having a brooding ill temper; sulky.
  2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.
  3. Sluggish; slow.
  4. Mischievous; malignant; unpropitious.
  5. Obstinate; intractable.

Noun

  1. One who is solitary, or lives alone; a hermit.
  2. Sullen feelings or manners; sulks; moroseness.

Verb

  1. To make sullen.

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