sullenness
- n a gloomy ill-tempered feeling
- n a sullen moody resentful disposition
- Manifesting in the home as sullenness, disobedience and fierce assertions of independence, teen rage confuses and distresses parents, who often make matters worse with their clumsy .
- There is no doubt that his essentially loveless upbringing created the seething sullenness of his nature.
- It was like that in half a dozen little forest towns along the border, as fear gave way to sullenness and sullenness to little offers of assistance.