dourly
- r in a sullen manner
he sat in his chair dourly
- Drum-major in the band from whom the swaggering racket swelled, they said, was a skinny man from Vermont, and the big bass drum he so dourly thumped was called Prosperity.
- At the very mention, his lips curl dourly: "I hardly even know the woman.
- Given Iran's strict religious culture and the series of grim-faced, dourly dressed clerics that have been the face of the Islamic Republic since the 1979 revolution, one might .