Usage examples (37)

• They do not in sullenness deny him an answer, nor stand mute; but they tell him that they are in no care about it.
• What was then called sullenness now took the name of resignation, and stupidity was quiet contempt.
• She was frightened and ashamed, and the sullenness which is the refuge of most young people descended upon her like a darkness.
• "ill-will" he describes as "an anger that endures and grows old," and this the Philosopher ascribes to "sullenness"; while he describes