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Glumness

noun
1.
An atmosphere of depression and melancholy.  Synonyms: gloom, gloominess.
2.
A gloomy ill-tempered feeling.  Synonyms: moroseness, sullenness.






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"Glumness" Quotes from Famous Books



... disastrous effects of this preocccupation with the things and the labors of the household is the killing of conversation. There is perhaps no more general weakness in the average American family than glumness! The silent newspaper-reading father, the worried watchful mother, the surly boy, the fretful girl, these are characters typical in both town and country. In one of Mrs. Daskam Bacon's lively tales, "Ardelia in Arcadia," the little heroine is transplanted from a lively, chattering, sweltering ...
— The Business of Being a Woman • Ida M. Tarbell

... thought Leonore. "No," she said, "It will be bad enough to do that five years from now, for the man I love." She looked out from under her eyelashes to see if her blow had been fatal, and concluded from the glumness in Peter's face, that she really had been too cruel. So she added: "But you may give me a ball, and we'll all come up and stay ...
— The Honorable Peter Stirling and What People Thought of Him • Paul Leicester Ford



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