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  • 71Sullen — Sul len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy; dismal; foreboding.… …

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  • 72Sullenly — Sullen Sul len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy; dismal;… …

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  • 73Sullenness — Sullen Sul len, a. [OE. solein, solain, lonely, sullen; through Old French fr. (assumed) LL. solanus solitary, fr. L. solus alone. See {Sole}, a.] 1. Lonely; solitary; desolate. [Obs.] Wyclif (Job iii. 14). [1913 Webster] 2. Gloomy; dismal;… …

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  • 74sullen — sullenly, adv. sullenness, n. /sul euhn/, adj. 1. showing irritation or ill humor by a gloomy silence or reserve. 2. persistently and silently ill humored; morose. 3. indicative of gloomy ill humor. 4. gloomy or dismal, as weather or a sound. 5.… …

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  • 75peevish — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, acrimonious, bad tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bilious, bitching, cantankerous, captious, carping, catty, caviling, cavilling, churlish, complaining, complaintful, crabbed, crabbing, crabby, cranky,… …

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  • 76querulous — Synonyms and related words: Jeremianic, annoyed, bad tempered, beefing, bellyaching, bemoaning, bitching, blubbering, cantankerous, carping, catty, censorious, choleric, complaining, complaintful, crabbing, crabby, cranky, critical, criticizing,… …

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  • 77sullen — Synonyms and related words: antisocial, at odds, autistic, averse, bad tempered, balking, balky, bashful, beetle browed, bigoted, black, black browed, brooding, broody, bulldogged, bulletheaded, bullheaded, cantankerous, case hardened, chapfallen …

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  • 78acrimonious — adj 1. caustic, mordant, bitter, acrid, pungent; astringent, severe, stern, austere, stringent; harsh, sharp, sour, acidulous, acid, tart; trenchant, keen, sarcastic, satiric, ironic, ironical; virulent, spiteful, malicious, venomous, vicious,… …

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  • 79cranky — adj 1. grouchy, crabby, surly, sour, moody, crotchety; sulky, morose, sullen, whining; irascible, waspish, gruff, churlish, bearish; cross, ill tempered, ill natured, ill humored; irritable, splenetic, fretful, choleric; testy, petulant, snappish …

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  • 80cross — n 1. crucifix, crux, rood, crosslet. 2. crossing, crosswalk, corner; crossroad, crossway, intersection, junction, juncture; convergence, conver gency, point of meeting. 3. thwarting, frustration, stumbling block, impediment, encumbrance,… …

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