SULLENLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sullenly mean? 

• SULLENLY (adverb)
  The adverb SULLENLY has 1 sense:

1. in a sullen manner

  Familiarity information: SULLENLY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SULLENLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a sullen manner

Synonyms:

dourly; glumly; sullenly

Context example:

he sat in his chair dourly

Pertainym:

sullen (showing a brooding ill humor)

 Context examples 

They went sullenly, but they went.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Hans still refused to touch the murderer, and sullenly watched Edith drag him across the floor to the men's bunk- room.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

When the inspector and a constable entered the house, Arthur, who had stood sullenly with his arms folded, asked me whether it was my intention to charge him with theft.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A huge brown rock from the Genoese sang over their heads, and plunged sullenly into the slope of a wave.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

They disliked me; and they sullenly, sternly, steadily, overlooked me.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

This had been one of the things taught him by the master, and White Fang obeyed, though he lay down reluctantly and sullenly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Whereupon he lay down sullenly and allowed the crate to be lifted into a wagon.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

“I do not believe I shall go any farther,” said he sullenly; “I see nothing of them. By the time I get to the knoll they may be gone somewhere else. I have had walking enough.”

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Mosquitoes came buzzing in and hummed sullenly round the room; the sea, which I could hear from thence, rumbled dull like an earthquake—black clouds were casting up over it; the moon was setting in the waves, broad and red, like a hot cannon-ball—she threw her last bloody glance over a world quivering with the ferment of tempest.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

The boy glowered sullenly, but refused to move.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)