saturnine
- s bitter or scornful
the face was saturnine and swarthy, and the sensual lips...twisted with disdain"- Oscar Wilde - s showing a brooding ill humor
a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven
- To decipher the late 1960's through the story of Swede Levov, whose life is cast into the fires of those years, Roth calls again upon the saturnine side of his disposition.
- The pianist who has been evoking that sort of reception for a month from Riga to Kiev is a far cry from the saturnine dandy with the "Florentine profile.
- There he may very well be waited on by the saturnine president of the company, Stanley Marcus, 55, who scours the world looking for unique, elegant and off-beat itemsand likes .