SULLEN

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Traducere în limba română

sullen I. adjectiv

ursuz, posac; închis, rezervat, supărat.

sullen II. substantiv pl. vezi sulk (II).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Big John stood waiting in the centre with a sullen, menacing eye, and his red hair in a bristle, while the archer paced lightly and swiftly to the right and the left with crooked knee and hands advanced.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is now after the dinner-hour of the asylum, and as yet my patient sits in a corner brooding, with a dull, sullen, woe-begone look in his face, which seems rather to indicate than to show something directly.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I had previously seen something of the same constantly growing excitement in him when he had to make some request of which at the time he had thought much, such, for instance, as when he wanted a cat; and I was prepared to see the collapse into the same sullen acquiescence on this occasion.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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