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# sullen

«sullen» in Mova's school dictionary: **quiet and bad-tempered, not wanting to talk or smile** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (sullen, sullener, sullenest)

### meaning for a pupil

Sullen means quiet and bad-tempered, not wanting to talk or smile. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sullen/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a character who sulks, looks unhappy and refuses to be friendly

### examples

- He gave a sullen look. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sullen/#x1)
- She was sullen all morning after the argument. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sullen/#x2)
- The sullen boy would not answer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sullen/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### In the corpora

- [And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/jps/1KI.771/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sullen» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sullen/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.