Definition of "sullenly" [sullenly]

• In a sullen manner. (adverb)

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• "Each answered the roll-call sullenly, out of necessity, for every one of them was a marked man."
• "They continued to call sullenly for "the traitor.""
• "It has been remarked by the American historian, Schouler, that immediately before the outbreak of the Civil War, diplomatic controversies between England and America had largely been settled, and that England, pressed from point to point, had "sullenly" yielded under"