glum
gləm-
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glum
moody and melancholic -
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glum
showing a brooding ill humor "a dark scowl","the proverbially dour New England Puritan","a glum, hopeless shrug","he sat in moody silence","a morose and unsociable manner","a saturnine, almost misanthropic young genius"- Bruce Bliven","a sour temper","a sullen crowd"
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Glum
Moody; silent; sullen. "I frighten people by my glun face." -
Glum
glŭm Sullenness. -
Glum
To look sullen; to be of a sour countenance; to be glum.
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glum
To frown; look sullen or glum: same as gloom. -
glum
Gloomily sullen or silent; moody; frowning. -
(n)
glum
A sullen look; a frown.
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(adj)
Glum
glum frowning: sullen: gloomy
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary See Gloom
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary M. E. glomben, glommen, to frown: prob. related to Sw. glomma, Low Ger. glummen.
Hollywood's holidays start glumly with bad weekend. ndu.com
Republican Governors Meet, Glumly . ashingtonpost.com
Bale Plays Bruce Wayne, Glumly. online.wsj.com
Later insisted he never meant the glum slides to reach the public. forbes.com
Arnold Schwarzenegger and his oldest daughter Katherine looked noticably glum Monday -- only a day before news broke that Arnold had fathered a child out-of-wedlock. radaronline.com
We first meet this divorced, 50-ish, glumly alcoholic white-collar worker — the protagonist of Bobcat Goldthwait's God Bless America — on one of his sleepless nights, entertaining homicidal fantasies about the couple next door. phoenixnewtimes.com
The glum economy has left more than a few highly talented people without jobs for longer than they might have imagined. goerie.com
Don't be glum, fanboys, you can make up for it this weekend with Pop Con, the University of Alaska Fairbanks' con that brings the best in games, comics and pop culture right to our backyard. newsminer.com
I spent an unhealthy portion of last season feeling glum about "Glee". standard.net
FX Remember when the Sons were all glum a few episodes ago after, ya know, all those people died. nj.com
Tax Policy Center issues glum report. tennessean.com
Grimmer View Of Recession Leads To Glum UConn Forecast. courant.com
Frankly, after seeing Nick's gymnastics, I was a little glum that I was "stiff as steel," not supple enough, not letting myself surrender to the experience. yankeemagazine.com
Thanks to his sleepwalking — the glum inertia of his days and the literal somnambulance of his nights — the wrong dreams are coming true. pitch.com
A somber Republican crowd watched glumly on Tuesday as former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney failed in his bid to unseat President Barack Obama, despite a stubbornly high unemployment rate. q106fm.com
Unmoved by the gloom of those about her, glum looks, short answers, and the atmosphere of a November fog, she went about her business as before. "Boy Woodburn" by
I say, McAllister, you look very glum. "Marie Gourdon" by
Seaton began to look rather glum. "The Luckiest Girl in the School" by
So upon being dismissed we returned to our barracks looking decidedly glum. "Sixteen Months in Four German Prisons" by
McDonald, too, stood glum and dour, clasping his wrist behind his back. "Conjuror's House" by
But at the question the fellow went glum with a tipping and bowing and begging of pardon. "Heralds of Empire" by
I have pieced out the rest of his story, and I shall put it into my book when I am less glum. "The Chequers" by
They came away in good spirits, and must have succeeded, else they'd a' been glum enough. "Captain Sam" by
Henrietta would have felt quite glum, except that she couldn't very well mope in the midst of the terrific racket all about her. "The Tale of Henrietta Hen" by
The bays were a glum appearing pair. "The Tale of Pony Twinkleheels" by
Glumly I wait to marry dust.
It grieves me only that I must
Speak not to you, but to a bird.
"When Nature herself is glad,
And the painted woods are laughing
At the faces so sour and sad?"
He watched each missive come,
And a note that seemed like a love-line
Made him look frozen and glum.
Eating his whole wheat pie,
He looked pretty glum for he found not a plum,
And he said, I don't like this old pie.
"One puff
More's enough
To blow her to snuff!
One good puff more where the last was bred,
And glimmer, glimmer, glum will go that thread!"
And she puts it at her waist — Oh, violets, cheap violets, how dear you do become !
I buy the bunch for twopence,
And the lilies are disgraced,
The snowdrops hang neglected, and the daffodils look glum !