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 Translation for 'sullen' from English to French
ADJ   sullen | sullener | sullenest
SYNO dark | dour | glowering | ...
morose {adj}sullen
renfrogné {adj}sullen
bougon {adj} [fam.]sullen
revêche {adj} [personne]sullen
maussade {adj} [voix, humeur]sullen
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Usage Examples English
  • Although David Collins remarked on Baughan's 'sullen and vindictive disposition', he considered him 'an ingenious man'.
  • The Hoffmans – a sullen, childless German couple living on one side of Kessler who never bother to say hello or exchange a pleasant greeting with him.
  • Ralph Waldo Wright (May 17, 1908 – December 31, 1983) was a Disney animator and story/storyboard writer who provided the gloomy, sullen voice of Eeyore from the popular "Winnie the Pooh" franchise.
  • She is a willing worker and generally suffers Rick's selfish eccentricities in sullen silence.
  • The movie ends with Peders and Katya watching their tapes - Peders wearing a sullen expression.

  • The word champ has also been adopted into the popular Hiberno-English phrases, to be "as thick as champ", meaning to be ill-tempered or sullen, or stupid.
  • It recounts a New Year's Eve experience in which the singer and his sullen (presumably grieving) female companion visit the church to light candles.
  • On 21 July 1930 the group left Alice Springs, Lasseter was a sullen companion and a vague guide.
  • Huberty was a sullen child with few friends, whose primary interest was target practice.
  • Upon the worsening of his grandfather's Alzheimer disease, sullen security guard Óscar meets at the hospital with lively sister María (accompanied by French boyfriend Jean) whom with he has a fraught relationship.

  • As the couple passed in front of him, Kelly's client – noticing that he was being observed – scrutinized the witness with a sullen attitude and immediately lowered his head.
  • She took photographs for some of the Pye record sleeves and was responsible for the sullen look affected by the band.
  • He was sullen and moody and had difficulty bonding with teammates.
  • The 16-minute short film stars Harry Borland as a sullen high-school student who falls in love with a blindly optimistic Christian girl Trinity (Charlotte Nicdao), much to the annoyance of his angst-filled bandmates and her evangelistic brethren.
  • With sullen hateful looks he goes his wayes.

  • The Padroado-Propaganda Schism was an ecclesiastical conflict that pitted Catholics against each other, sometimes leading to physical violence, insults and mutual excommunications, but most usually subsisting in a long, sullen mutual co-existence in hostility.
  • The conversation continues in this constant sullen tone, especially when the comparison takes on proper names.
  • north front possesses an air of solemn, sullen grandeur; but it very ill accords with the taste and science generally displayed by its nominal architect III.
  • He has revealed his ill-intentions on a dark night, one made sullen by the shadow of death; and who has sent against us soldiers and oppressors.
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